Explain the Meaning of Segregation, Why Americans Wanted It and What Was Meant by 'Jim Crow Laws' Segregation is the process of creating separate facilities within a society for the exclusive and non-interchangeable use by one of two nominally divided groups. It inheres the imposition of a normative moral, ethical and legal framework under which a minority group within a population is usually suppressed. As official doctrine, a policy of segregation represents a more rigorous …
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…were considered constitutional so long as the separate facilities were 'equal'. Such equality would rarely materialise, and in the south, this was especially the case. In this manner the black population of the American south were systematically denied the fundamental human entitlements of respect, opportunity, status and welfare. While their oppressors, the white majority, could continue to exploit, with impunity, in the tradition of their slave-owning ancestors, a race they deemed inferior in every way.