After the Virginians of African descent were freed, there were still discrimination against them. “the war had ended slavery and restored the Union, but it did not decide negro equality…” Richmond’s press began to campaign against voting rights for black citizens, and the city maintained a fundamental policy of racial segregation. The city decided to extend a street in order to support a new suburb, the street and viaduct cut through and tore up Richmond’s historic black cemetery. This illustrates the level of disregard for the African American community by white power structure. The discrimination also exists in transportation, marriage, public facilities, and education. Ironically, the state’s solution to these discrimination is not to provide more help to blacks, but to give more privileges to whites, such as the provision for state tuition grants to private schools for white child, and review the application of black student requesting to go to a school other than assigned.