What was the purpose of separate “white” and “colored” facilities?

To enforce segregation

Explanation:

Many southern states that were actively advocating and demonstrating segregation would often separate public areas such as water fountains, or shops from the colored and the white. These were seen as inhumane actions taken by selfish people.

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after the senate and the house passed different bills and deadlock threatened, a compromise bill was worked out with the following provisions: (1) missouri was admitted as a slave state and maine (formerly part of massachusetts).