<em>C.) They wanted to encourage literacy among formerly enslaved African Americans.
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<u>Explanation</u>:
Jim Crow Laws was implemented between the phase of Reconstruction and Civil Rights movement. This law ensured the <em>segregation of rights for the coloured and white men. </em>
This law was based on equal but separate principle where there were separate facilities for coloured and white men. <em>Black people could work in government agencies but were allowed minor posts for the job</em>.
Later supreme court passed law to eliminate segregation in certain fields, but the <em>segregation was eliminated by law only after the civil rights movement. </em>
