Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow Laws were statutes or laws created to enforce or segregation. In the South, segregation, or separation of the races, was different because laws enforced and perpetrated the discrimination. In 1883 the Supreme Court set the stage for legalized segregation by overturning the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The law  had prohibited racial discrimination keeping people out of public places on the basis of race, and it also prohibited racial discrimination in selecting jurors. ''Jim Crow'' laws segregated buses and trains, schools, restaurants, swimming pools, parks, and other public facilities. Also drinking fountains, railroad cars, lavatories, and waiting rooms were segregated all across the South due to the Jim Crow System. The Jim Crow System legally entitled the African Americans were ''separate-but-equal'', which means they had ''separate-but-equal'' schooling, housing, and social services. However, the Jim Crow System made sure that only a small percentage of public funds embarked for schools, streets, police, and other expenses found its way to African American neighborhoods.