“Although America might not like to admit it, there are definite parallels between their history prior to the civil war, and ours in South Africa.” Almost certainly, for many years human beings have overlooked the major possibility of America being similar to Africa. Comparisons were ignored etc. But are these notions really as impossible as we were brought up to think? How could we possibly have had the same beginnings/history as one of the …showed first 75 words of 6358 total…

…showed last 75 words of 6358 total…and to support this belief sought rationalizations through religion and science. The U.S. Supreme Court was inclined to agree with the white-supremacist judgment and declared the CIVIL RIGHTS ACT of 1875 unconstitutional. In 1896 it legitimised the principle of "separate but equal" in its ruling PLESSY V. FERGUSON. The high court rulings led to a profusion of Jim Crow laws. By 1914 every Southern state had passed laws that created two separate societies--one black, the other white.