Many African Americans had to live through the time period of jim crow laws, from them we learn about their hardships and sufferings. …show more content…
One of the main ways was that becoming employed became a challenge. If they could find a job it was usually an agricultural job, that put them in a economic decline. At this time whites viewed African Americans with “disgust”, to most people they were no higher than animals. This lead to many whites not wanting to higher African Americans. The Jim Crow laws made it to where many blacks became unemployed. The separate-but-equal doctrine let whites keep this in place for so long. The Jim Crow Laws were in place for nearly a century, during that time many factors let whites in the south defend the segregation laws. According to William “The Supreme Court’s landmark Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 established the principle of separate-but-equal in a ruling upholding a Louisiana law that required segregation on railroad cars. The separate-but-equal doctrine would serve as the constitutional underpinning of legal segregation until the mid-1950s.”. The separate-but-equal doctrine was one big factor that let whites and states defend the Jim Crow Laws. Even though some whites and most all African Americans wanted to rid the Jim Crow laws,