n a perfect world “What Should of Been” at the time of 1960.

Jim Crow laws were read about as fictional stories. The Great writers of that time would tell made up stories to deflect on how great things were amongst black culture. Stories on how Public parks were forbidden for African Americans to enter, and how theaters and restaurants were segregated.
Segregated waiting rooms in bus and train stations were required, as well as water fountains, restrooms, building entrances, elevators, cemeteries, even amusement-park cashier windows.
Laws forbade African Americans from living in white neighborhoods. Segregation was enforced for public pools, phone booths, hospitals, asylums, jails and residential homes for the elderly and handicapped.
In this painting a Black Man drinks a cup of water, with no worries under a sign that says “For Colored and Whites.”