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Shaken, not stirred!
Why would white people need to provide "separate but equal" facilities for black people? Why would businesses need to go to the expense and trouble of doing that? There was no law stating this had to be done, and the 'interpretations' of the Constitution at the time, didn't even give black people American citizenship. They didn't have any right to equality with white people, so why would white people be going out of their way to provide it?
The CRA of 1875, which you are crowing about here, was actually the impetus behind segregation policies. It was the REASON we had segregation for another century! After that act was passed, it became the law that blacks had to be given "equal access" ....note, it doesn't say SAME access! Therefore, white people began practices of "segregation" and provided "separate but equal" facilities for blacks, which conformed to the CRA of 1875 as it was written, and the SCOTUS upheld the practice until 1954. In 1954, the argument was made, that "separate but equal" was indeed NOT equal, and the concept of "desegregation" was born.
From the Merriam-Webster dictionary
Segregation
2 a : the separation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group by enforced or voluntary residence in a restricted area, by barriers to social intercourse, by separate educational facilities, or by other discriminatory means b : the separation for special treatment or observation of individuals or items from a larger group <segregation of gifted children into accelerated classes.>
Unless you're totally ignorant of American history regarding slavery and Jim Crow laws, you're insane notion that segregation wasn't "official" and therefore not technically existent (and therefore no law was against it) reeks of the revisionist blatherings found in the writings of David Duke and like minded trolls. But as always, a more accurate historical record will always be your undoing. That the information is so readily available speaks volumes on your willful ignorance and preference of your idealism over matters of fact and history:
1787 - For instance, African-American members of St. George's Church in Philadelphia marched out the door one Sunday in 1787 rather than face the degradation of being told that they had to sit in segregated pews; they went and formed what eventually became the African ...For instance, African-American members of St. George's Church in Philadelphia marched out the door one Sunday in 1787 rather than face the degradation of being told that they had to sit in segregated pews; they went and formed what eventually became the African Methodist Episcopal denomination. But it is also true that segregation happens in houses of worship (and many other places) through far less overtly vicious or deliberate efforts to separate people.
1849 - While black students attended Monroe School, whites attended Sumner School, named for Massachusetts congressman and abolitionist Charles Sumner. Sumner and an African-American attorney named Robert Morris challenged segregation in Massachusetts in 1849. In an ...While black students attended Monroe School, whites attended Sumner School, named for Massachusetts congressman and abolitionist Charles Sumner. Sumner and an African-American attorney named Robert Morris challenged segregation in Massachusetts in 1849. In an introductory videotape called "In Pursuit of Freedom and Equality," a narrator emphasizes that throughout our nation's history, federal laws have mandated segregated schools only for African-Americans: "not for Irish
http://www.google.com/search?q=hist...tes&ved=0CG8QpQI&tbs=tl:1,tlul:1700,tluh:1890