Not advocating for segregation, but Africans-Americans had a better family structure under segregation (more nuclear families with the father present), used less drugs, were healthier/fitter, they used less welfare, lower crime rate etc.
Even their music was classier:
They were also getting lynched, discriminated against and they couldn't even build up generational wealth because it'd get burnt down.
That's a time period I wouldn't want to live in as a dark person