Which definition best fits the term "Jim Crow laws?"

a. laws that created affirmative action

b. laws that ended disenfranchisement

c. laws that created equal rights

d. laws that created public segregation

laws that created equal rights

The purpose of the Jim Crow laws was to segregate and disenfranchise black Americans. The Jim Crow system, which was a racial caste class in actuality, was a series of immutable anti-black laws that mainly deprived African Americans the right to suffrage.