Dixie - In Memoriam
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Be it enacted, That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement;
If that is not a law providing for desegregation, I dont know what is!!!
Well then, I guess you don't know what is, because that law says nothing about segregation or desegregation. Sorry! But thanks for admitting you don't know what is, that takes a big person!
In the hopes that maybe you will become educated on this, let me explain it to you... this act, and other similar acts passed around the same time, were actually used as the basis FOR segregation! You will notice, the law you keep posting, says not one thing about separating blacks from whites. It maintains they must share "equal enjoyment" of the facilities, etc. Segregationist mantra was "separate but equal" and this law is the reason the mantra even included "but equal." If not for CRA 1875, the mantra would have been "separate, and we don't give a shit if it's equal!" It's because the law mandated that blacks be given "equal access" that segregationists included "equality" in their separation of blacks and whites. The law doesn't state they must share the same facilities (integration), it facilitates the concept of "separate but equal" precisely because it doesn't stipulate this.
In fact, no law stipulated that segregation wasn't legal, that is why it prevailed as the "norm" in America for nearly another century. In the landmark legal cases which brought down segregation, the main legal point established and acknowledged by the court in finding, was the fact that segregation often didn't provide "equal" at all, and therefore, violated the CRA of 1875, and the only way to remedy this was "desegregation." That is the first time "desegregation" is used as a term in America. In 1875, there was no such thing as "segregation" or "desegregation" because the terms simply didn't exist. Had you asked the man on the street in 1875, he would have said... "desegre-what?" Segregating was essentially white people's answer to the law, because the law (the one you're posting) doesn't stipulate that facilities and accommodations can't be separate (segregated).
Jarhead... you have officially been schooled!