Why do you think racial segregation was added in 1875? __

Racial segregation was added in 1875 as a way to enforce the Jim Crow laws, which were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. These laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by black people during the Reconstruction Period. The Jim Crow laws were enforced until 1968.