Segregation In Black Like Me

Segregation with people of color is something that has come from some centuries ago. In the book Black Like Me, there are recounted experiences with segregation towards people of color. For example, when Griffin describes as when white armed men officers boarded the public bus, he says, “We sweated through our clothes and I was ready to leave and try for a later bus when they allowed us to board” (Griffin 53). The white cops in those years were too discriminatory and racist, and among all violent, causing fear of blacks toward them. Another example is one of the dates in his book, John Griffin describes his experience when he was on a public bus and when he decided to get off at his stop, the driver denied the exit until a white person
decided to go. Behind all this segregation to the black race, it was because of Jim Crow laws. Jim crow laws were approved laws that discrimination and segregation of the black race. An example of what these rules approved was, “They had to use restrooms for blacks only, water fountains for blacks only, and even schools for blacks only. Even hospitals had segregations. They had different waiting rooms and whites were treated first no matter how made the emergency was. In buses, blacks had to sit in the back and if a white person came, the black person would have to give up the seat”.