Jim Crow Laws In The Early 1900s

Beginning in the 1890s the segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as the Jim Crow laws represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated South America for three quarters of a century. These laws continued to be enforced until 1965. They mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former confederate states of america, starting in 1896 with the status of separate but equal. This was leaning towards African Americans in railroad cars. After the Civil War, public education had been segregated since its establishment in most all of the South. This act was extended to public facilities and transportation, including segregated cars on interstate busses and trains. African Americans facilities

Because of Plessy’s refusal he was immediately arrested. The Citizens Committee of New Orleans fought the case in 1896 all the way to the United States Supreme Court. They lost in the case named, Plessy V. Ferguson. The court ruled that "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional. The finding contributed to 58 years of legalized discrimination against black and colored people in the United States. Jim Crow laws mandated the segregation of public places, public schools, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks.These laws revived principles of the 1865 and 1866 “black codes”, which had previously restricted the civil liberties and civil rights of those African Americans. The segregation of public schools was declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in 1954 in the case Brown v. Board of education.In some cases it took years to implement this decision. Several of remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled in 1965 by the Voting Right Act and the Civil Rights Act in 1964.Multiple years of disciplinary action and court challenges have been needed to unravel the means of institutional