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 …
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…fully broken, it is being chiseled away. African Americans will one day have total social equality, as long as more blacks express their views, court cases are fought, and laws limiting black rights never come about again in the United States; we will one day have a "united and identical" law. For the black boy looking into the admission door window, he will one day reach the unlocked doorknob, and walk into an equal society.