I.  Origins of Segregation, early 1900s
      A.  a "progressive reform"
      B.  political motives of Democratic elites
  II.  Segregation laws in Texas
      A.  railroad cars, 1889: an early aberration
      B.  streecars, 1903 (statewide law in 1907)
      C.  public libraries, 1904
      D.  theaters and amusement parks, 1907
      E.  state prisons, 1909
      F.  railroad waiting rooms and employee compartments, 1910, 1911
      G.  bans on interracial sex, 1915-1924
      H.  residential segregation ordinances, 1916-on
      I.  black city parks and zoos, 1916-on
      J.  public schools (all through the period)
   III. "Separate but equal"
      A.  Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
      B.  the theory behind "separate but equal"
  IV.  Segregation as custom
      A.  a taboo system
         1.  the taboo system at work
         2.  inconsistencies of the system