The Pros And Cons Of Jim Crow Laws In Nashville

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Although African Americans made serious efforts to oppose Jim Crow laws in Nashville as early as 1905 with the streetcar boycotts and the founding of the Union Transportation Company, it was not until the United States Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas, case; the 1955 case of desegregating Nashville’s public schools; and the 1958 formation of the Nashville Christian Leadership Council (NCLC), that Nashville's African American community laid the foundation for dismantling racial segregation. They, like most African Americans living in the South, faced severe disadvantages under the laws as stipulated by the systemic infrastructure of Jim Crow segregation. Besides being relegated to underfunded