How Did Jim Crow Laws Impact The Civil Rights Movement?

Jim Crow started after Federal troops pulled out of the South and white supremacist Democrats “redeemed” their state governments, meaning that former Republican state legislatures during the Reconstruction era were voted out by Southern whites and voted in the would be dominate Democrats for decades. The first laws pushed by southern Democrats were intended to suppress blacks first and foremost, and also stop at any means their vote. The dominating ideal of white supremacy still engulfed the South after the Civil War and Jim Crow laws acted as the embodiment of these racist ideals. To keep segregation and the separation of races in all matters of life, such as transportation, housing, and education also kept blacks economically and socially suppressed so that southern black resistance was nearly impossible. Combine this with Republicans dropping civil rights from their platform after the 1870’s, and blacks were left in a police state where the only help they could find was from their own communities.
For many, the former jobs of slave labor of their ancestors only shifted from slavery to serfdom. Tenant farmers - also known as sharecroppers - lived and worked on their plot of land and rented from their owners. High prices for any seeds, tools, and food with half a cut of the harvest kept these farmer on their indebted land. Because of segregation, children of these rural and even urban blacks couldn’t dream of future generations having any better lives. When local white governments felt that schooling was needed for blacks at all, they built segregated schools of lower quality. Many counties didn’t build any type of schools for black