re: #799 RogueOne

Revisionist? If businesses were unwilling to deal with black people then what was the necessity of the Jim Crow laws?

Many Jim Crow laws had to do with voting, property ownership, marriage, and access to public institutions. The laws mandating private segregation as well were a subset of Jim Crow that you’re presenting as the totality.

How do you explain that when Jim Crow laws were struck down by laws mandating equal treatment were not yet in place, there wasn’t a wellspring of integrated businesses? Why did it take rulings on equal treatment?

Jim Crow laws were put in place with the support of the community. They were voted on by legislators elected by that community. They had the support of those communities. They were not handed down from on-high by ‘the government’.