Jim Crow laws were laws in the Southern United States that were state and local laws. These laws enforced racial segregation typically towards the blacks starting late in the 19th century. This was after the Reconstruction period, and were forced all the way until 1965. All public facilities were forced to be segregated in the states of the former Confederate States of America, which started back in 1896 with blacks having a “separate but equal” status. Segregation in public school was a thing all the way back to when it first established in most south after the Civil War. Then later all public facilities and transportation was put into the same law. African Americans were also not given proper equipment and/or resources within their facilities as they were considered inferior and underfunded, and this is being compared to European Americans. There were even times where they were never even given their own but just told to fend for themselves. Due to the way they were treated African Americans developed many economic, educational, and social disadvantages.
These Jim Crow laws originated during the reconstruction period which started in 1865 and ended in 1877. Federal laws provided protections to civil rights in the U.S South for Freedmen, the slaves who have been
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In 1875 there was a Civil rights Act which was introduced by Charles Sumner and Benjamin F. Butler, that promised everyone, regardless of race, was entitled to the same treatment in public places, but this act had little effect.This act was then deemed unconstitutional by a supreme court in 1883. They said congress was not afforded control over private persons or corporations. Rev. W. H Heard made a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission towards Georgia Railroad because of discrimination. He did this because of the sorting of white and blacks in different cars, but this was appealed for not violating the “separate but equal”