In Having Our Say, racial segregation was an evident topic to the sisters. In one instance, Bessie was on a train for African-Americans, and a white man walked in, and she smarted off to the white man. This caused a lot of trouble because if the man had not been drunk, she probably would have been lynched. African-Americans were not allowed to be disrespectful to white people, and they had to be separate in almost all situations. Bessie was on the train for African-Americans because she was not allowed to sit on the train for the white people.
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