From life after death to the benefits of worldly living.
Until all legally enforced public segregation (segregation de jure) was abolished by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Southern Manifesto was a document written in the South in 1956, which attempted to push back against Brown V. Board of Ed., which stated that racial segregation in school was illegal. Their argument being that the US Constitution nowhere mentions education.
Lighting kerosene lamps. Petroleum in the form of tar from oil seeps in the ground were used to seal boats and the roofs of houses.