What was the Jim Crow system?

Responses
A a system of economic struggle before World War Ia system of economic struggle before World War I
B a system designed to integrate African Americans into the larger community after the Civil Wara system designed to integrate African Americans into the larger community after the Civil War
C a system that relegated African Americans to a second-class statusa system that relegated African Americans to a second-class status
D a system of African American slavery in America before the Civil War

1 answer

C: a system that relegated African Americans to a second-class status.

The Jim Crow system comprised laws and social practices that enforced racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans in the United States, primarily in the South, from the late 19th century until the civil rights movement of the 1960s.