1. Because Plessy and Ferguson were part of the supreme court case to make Jim Crow laws unconstitutional, and would therefore feel protective of the African American Community.
2. Yes. Forced separation has a stained history due to violence in America for much of the 20th and 19th centuries, but that is because the forced separation was not implemented fairly in those cases. However, if implemented fairly and equally, forced separation can actually help stop conflicts from starting up, such as in modern-day Israel. hope it helps
