Why were Jim Crow laws aboilished?

Why were these laws abolished? I mean crime was lower in these days. We also had cheaper laborers than we do today?
Answer:
Shut up and fix me a sandwich, woman.

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Racist skank.

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Activist Judges

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?s...
the KKK is back... talk about activist judges.

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The Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and enforced between 1876 and 1965. They mandated "separate but equal" status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were almost always inferior to those provided to white Americans. Although it was legally required that the facilities provided should be equal, they were not. The Jim Crow period or the Jim Crow era refers to the time during which this practice occurred. The most important laws required that public schools, public places and public transportation, like trains and buses, have separate facilities for whites and blacks. (These Jim Crow Laws were separate from the 1800-66 Black Codes, which had restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans.) State-sponsored school segregation was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. Generally, the remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act; none were in effect at the end of the 1960s.

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Really? It might have something to do with the extreme racism under which those laws were written. You know who else had low crime rates? Nazi Germany. So if you really want to go down that road...

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卢because they were wrong! Would you want to live under those kinds of laws?

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Crimes wasnt lower. Its just that a lot of crimes went unpunish or turn a blind eye upon.

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I hope this is a joke. I would consider it to be due to the grammatical and spelling errors, but I'll humor you. The laws were fundamentally unfair, biased and not only violated the U.S. Constitution, but violated the unwritten code of human decency.

Additionally, who are the 'we' to whom you refer as having cheaper laborers? I can say with a high level of certainty that you probably would not have been benefiting directly from cheap laborers, seeing as how wealthy land owners and manufacturers benefited the most from the exploitation afforded by Jim Crow laws. Exploitation and unfairness breeds resentment and hostilities that eventually lead to social problems.

Lastly, think about the effort it takes for one person to physically, hold another down. In order for you to hold someone down, you yourself must stay low with them to keep them from rising. The same concept applies to the case of oppression in America and throughout the world, by means of unethical but techincally lawful devices like Jim Crow laws.

Imagine how much further as a nation America could be if, instead of oppressing people, all races were nurtured and allowed to grow and contribute to make this Nation a truly great and fair land of opportunity! In quoting the Bible, Abraham Lincoln recognized that a divided America would be a weaker America. While statutorily, slavery and Jim Crow were abolished, the practices continued culturally and have had a weakening effect on the nation. That is evident spiritually, morally, industrially, educationally etc.

So to answer your question, the Jim Crow laws were abolished because decent, God-fearing, Americans who believed in equity and the ideals housed within the Constitution stood up for right in the face of wrong.