Read the samples of Jim Crow laws below and answer the question. Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school. Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them. Any instructor who shall teach in any school, college or institution where members of the white and colored race are received and enrolled as pupils for instruction shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense. How would the country be different today if "separate but equal" were still the law? Answer in complete sentences. Be sure to fully explain your response.

How the country would be different today if "separate but equal" were still the law include:

1. The Jim Crow laws would have ensured the disunity of the United States, with the Confederation of American States (south) separate from the United States of America (north).  

2. The United States would have been a laughing stock of other nations of the world.  It would not be acting as a bastion of democracy and industrial development, as it could not be pushing for democracy in other countries without practicing what it preached.

3. There would have been continuous unrest in the Confederation of American States (US South) and human development would have been hindered a lot, because people of color would be in everlasting revolt in that part of the American continent.

Explanation:

The Jim Crow laws were laws from the pit of hell that enforced racial segregation in the Southern part of the United States.  It was instituted between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 after the civil war and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.  According to one Nebraska record in 1911, marriages were illegal between a white person and a person of color.  This depicts the extent of the cruelty that was hoisted on the country by the Jim Crow laws.