Jim Crow

They set out to create twisted public sculptures in enduring bronze that would fabricate a “noble” legacy to reinforce the modern white supremacy of Jim Crow’s racial segregation.

The Court held that the formula was an anachronism from the Jim Crow era and didn’t account for racial progress.

At the war’s end, black Americans in the South returned home to the old Jim Crow arrangements.

Board of Education led to the Court deeming segregation in public education to be unconstitutional, dismantling the separate but equal doctrine and marking the end of the Jim Crow era.

Passed in 1878, the act was designed to prevent the military from being used to support Jim Crow in the South.