They were inferior in the following ways: .
Culturally - Black people did not originate from the same place whites do, and their culture is different, and less accepted. .
Aesthetically - whites felt, and some still do feel that they are the "normal" way people should look, and blacks are different and therefore lesser than them. .
Intellectually - They looked different, and acted differently, so they must not be as intellectually smart as whites. .
Morally - Seeing as many of the everyday acts of culture, intellect, and even appearance were different, their morals must be different, or even non-existent. (Lewin, 35).
During this time discrimination took place against Negroes for jobs, education, and housing. Within the criminal justice system this discrimination was not considered to be morally wrong. Discrimination is an understatement of the conditions blacks went through that included enslavement, rape, lynching, beating, murdering, unjust imprisonment and humiliation of blacks by whites that went on for hundreds of years. Those who were mistreated were also separated and excluded. This refers to the physical segregation that occurred by race in housing, employment, and public facilities for non-whites after the civil war. .
In the 1950's possibility of integration between blacks and whites became a topic of national controversy, and differences viewed between races as a result of disadvantage for non-whites (especially in education) that were kept in place by white bigotry. Whites defended segregation in schools, work places and public facilities. Naomi Zack says in her book Thinking about Race, "Integration would result in "miscegenation" mixed race offspring from interracial marriage and sex." (39) After the civil rights were secured for blacks in the mid 1960's they began calling themselves "blacks" and "Afro-Americans" instead of Negroes, and during this time the concept of racism developed.