It was controversial because it contained elements and symbols that could be ascribed to communism, and since he believed in them and supported them this became a controversial subject. Especially since Rockefeller was quite the opposite of what communism stands for.
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".[2] This legitimized the state laws re-establishing racial segregation that were passed in the American South in the late 19th century after the end of the Reconstruction Era. The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1, with the majority opinion written by Justice Henry Billings Brown and the lone dissent written by Justice John Marshall Harlan.
There were not paid the same wages in job markets
They became rivals because each one wanted more power than the other for example in world war 2 the USA made the atomic bomb which showed the world that the Americans were the most powerful country but after ww2 Russia and USA started a Cold War which lead to the feud between there political views and the start of better technology and the space race
