The postbellum South would not have been some racial utopia - the people, after all, *elected* those governments - but with no Jim Crow laws there would doubtless have been more interracial commerce. Law not only restricted that, it signaled in favor of discrimination. https://twitter.com/willplombardo/status/1270083441762144261 …
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The private pressure on white businesses to deny credit to black businesses and black farmers who agitated for even modest progress was intense, especially as the push for civil rights began in earnest. It was necessary for that reason alone
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Worst thing for race relations in this country is the assassination of Lincoln. Totally different reconstruction, without backlash that led to Jim Crow
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The 14th Amendment, nonetheless, should have been more stringently enforced, and then there would have been no need for the CRA. It’s because nobody was enforcing the 14th Amendment that law to enforce the amendment had to be put in place.
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