In 1896, in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court declared the "separate but equal" doctrine. It upheld the rights of governments to set up separate schools and separate public facilities for blacks and whites so that blacks and whites could be "equal." However, they were far from equal.
The American West was indeed a land of great opportunity from 1865 to 1900 in the sense that there was an abundance of land and resources available to all those willing to go west.
Answer:In a letter to his fifteen-year-old nephew and namesake, penned in 1963 on the one hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation, author James Baldwin says that American white society has unwittingly placed "the Negro" in a position so untenable that it is "not very far removed" from the oppressive London of the past, so famously described by Charles Dickens.
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