The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were usually inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages.
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Public accommodation
Legislature that made discrimination illegal and enforced laws against segregation. :: apex
apartheid was made in South Africa while Segregation was being made here in the U.S.A
Legislature that made discrimination illegal and enforced laws against segregation. :: apex
Twenty states passed laws that made segregation illegal in 1890.
southern states
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination. The Act was a key moment in the Civil Rights Movement and is considered a major victory in the fight for equal rights.
One argument about segregation made by Thurgood Marshall before the Supreme Court was that African American students suffered damage from being treated differently.
Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Supreme Court at first said that it was the states' business and the federal government could not interfere. Later on, the Supreme Court made racial segregation illegal.
The US Supreme Court declared segregation in pubic schools unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education, (1954), and ordered the schools integrated in Brown v. Board of Education II, (1955).