“Jim Crow” can best be described as which of these?

A

a set of laws, the era defined by those laws and the attitudes that those laws reflected

B

social customs against southern state laws

C

an activist who fought to end segregation in the South after Reconstruction

D

a series of marriage laws and customs

1 answer

The best description of "Jim Crow" is:

A - a set of laws, the era defined by those laws and the attitudes that those laws reflected.

Jim Crow laws were state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation in the United States, primarily in the South, and they reflected the prevailing racist attitudes of that time.

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