USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Jim Crow laws were laws created by white southerners to enforce racial segregation across the South from the 1870s through the 1960s.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that segregation was constitutional. The ruling established the idea of “separate but equal.” The case involved a mixed-race man who was forced to sit in the Black-designated train car under Louisiana’s Separate Car Act.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Separate Car Act of 1890 was a law passed by the Louisiana State Government that required all passenger railways to have separate train car accommodations for black and white Americans that were equal in facilities.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Louisiana Separate Car Act passed in July 1890. In order to “promote the comfort of passengers, ” railroads had to provide “equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races” on lines running in the state.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1868, Louisiana ratified a new Constitution that added language to include “Black Men” in the understanding of “all men created” equal. The state constitution included Article 135, which required Louisiana to provide free public education to all students. It also outlawed racially-segregated schools.