“The projected benevolence of the Plessy ruling and the Atlanta Compromise seemed to bring a finality to the disorder of the “Negro problem.” Indeed, the finality of the “Negro problem” as the nineteenth century closed meant a United States dead set on playing down the southern horrors of discrimination and playing up what was wrong with Black people.” RacismJim CrowPlessy V FergusonAtlanta Compromise Book:Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Source: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America