Segregation Extends to Federal Facilities in the South by Late 1890s

By the late 1890s, de facto and de jure segregation extends to post offices, federal courthouses, and military installations in the South. Black postal workers in Southern cities are transferred or dismissed. Federal buildings maintain separate entrances and waiting areas. The federal government's accommodation of Southern segregation customs, which will be formalized under Woodrow Wilson in 1913, is already visible in the 1890s pattern of non-enforcement.