A huge part of why racial equality is still a problem during this time is due to the outcome of the court case of Plessy v. Ferguson. This court case alone sent decades of work towards racial equality back to where they started. This industrial era was still too great for the African American’s to pass up and the huge number of labor jobs led to thousands migrating into the United States to find work. Since most of the work required little skill from the workers, and there were so many new jobs created, it made a great opportunity for African Americans to come in and find work easily. Not only did it create a large amount of job opportunities, but also the chance to break away from the negative atmosphere of the South and create new lives away from those that have harmed them for so long. This was the perfect chance for African Americans to begin and make new lives in the North during the transformation into an industrial