Segregation was allowed in public schools by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in [[Plessy v. Ferguson]] (1896), but then prohibited in [[Brown v. Board of Education]] (1954). In the 1960s, "Segregationists wanted policies that privileged whites."<ref>[http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.928/article_detail.asp The Myth of the Racist Republicans]</ref>
[[Woodrow Wilson]], the second Democrat president after the [[Civil War]], introduced segregation into the United States government [[Civil service system|Civil Service]], requiring separate bathrooms and cafaterias in federal buildings throughout the land, including Northern and Western states which had fought for the Union and had no existed without laws requiring segregation of the races. US [[military]] training and units also were segregated.
In addition to the public schools, segregation existed in the United States in the military up until 1947. In the Democratic controlled [[The South|South]] and [[federal government]] it existed in public accommodations like restrooms, drinking fountains, cafaterias, movie theaters, buses, trains and hotels before the federal government reversed itself and banned it with the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]].