What was one solution proposed to Jim Crow laws?
Answer Thanks, Erika, for your questions: The Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and Border States of the United States and enforced between 1876 and 1965. They mandated “separate but equal” status for African Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were almost always inferior to those provided to white Americans. The “Jim Crow period” or the “Jim Crow era” refers to the time during which this practice occurred. The most important laws required that public schools, public places and public transportation, like trains and buses, have separate facilities for whites and blacks. (These Jim Crow Laws were separate from the 1800-1866 Black Codes, which had restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans.) State-sponsored school segregation was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. All other Jim Crow laws were repealed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. During the Reco
