Society In 1947

This shows that the drinking fountains were varied on your race.

Being part of Society in 1947 was very hard for African Americans. Life was hard for African Americans because of the laws in place limiting their rights as Americans. One example of this was the Jim Crow Laws; these limited what African Americans could do and segregated them from White Americans. For example, they were segregated at:

• schools

• theaters

• taverns

• waiting rooms
  
• telephone booths
  
• entrances
  
• racetracks
  
• hospitals
  
• boxing matches
  
• restaurants
  
• hotels
  
• elevators
  
• train cars
  
• cemetery
  
• prisons
  
• churches
  
• swimming pools
  
• bathrooms
  

• drinking fountains

• voting

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