All throughout history, people have always wanted what they are unable to obtain. The unattainable for the black populace during the civil rights era was social equality. When slavery was abolished in 1865 by the thirteenth amendment, black men and women were faced with many injustices. These racial tensions are expressed in the image of the black boy pressed against the admission door.
In 1876, in the states passed Jim Crow laws; which were made to enforce racial segregation, and included laws that would prevent African Americans from doing things that a white person could legally do. Jim Crow laws limited black Americans from doing many things; they could not eat at the same lunch counters, travel around white people, visit the same entertainment, marry a person of the opposite race, work high paying jobs due to racism, or attend the same schools as white children. …
