When it came to entertainment African Americans were refused access to many public parks and restaurants. Some public amusements had separate entrances for the colored. To see a movie they were forced to sit in the balcony separated from the white folks. Some buildings denied the access to colored altogether (Jim Crow Laws). Even at work the racial segregation existed. They were to enter the building from different doors, collect their paychecks from different windows, and use different bathrooms from one another. Segregation didn't stop at death. Some states refused hearses from carrying both races and had separate burial grounds.
Stetson Kennedy, the author of Jim Crow Guide, offered these simple rules that Blacks were suppose to observe in conversing with Whites:
1. Never assert or even intimate the a White person is lying.
2. Never impute dishonorable intentions to White person.
3. never suggest that a White person is from an inferior class.
4. Never lay claim to, or overly demonstrate, superior knowledge or intelligence.
5. Never curse a White person.
6. Never laugh derisively at a White person.
7. Never comment upon the appearance of a White female.
Jim Crow signs were put above water fountains, entrances and exits, and public facilities.
The blacks and whites had different hospitals, prisons,
public and private schools, separate restrooms, separate churches,
and separate public accommodations.
"All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races" (The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow).
African Americans were restricted from sharing a bus seat or being in the same section with a white passenger.
Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man. She was arrested and taken to prison. Rosa agreed to have her case heard. Parks trial was followed by 32- month Montgomery bus boycott.
November 1956 declared the unconstitutionality of segregation on transportation and was the start of the civil rights movement.