How did local laws throughout the south degrade african american

It crippled them economically forcing them into cheap labor Most of the time it disenfranchised them The black codes were passed which were essentially a set of restrictive laws passed during johnsons presidency which in a lot of states forced black people to sign labor contracts otherwise they would have been fined or jailed or sold back into basically slavery

Contributing factors  leading  to the harlem renaissance were the great migration of african americans to northern cities, which concentratedambitious  people in places where they could encourage each  other, and the first world war, which had created new industrial work opportunities for tens of thousands of people.