The main goal of Jim Crow laws was to a. protect and secure rights for African Americans.
b. limit the freedoms and rights of African Americans.
c. stimulate the Southern economy by protecting business.
d. prevent the Southern economy from becoming too big.

B. limit the freedoms and rights of african americans

Explanation:

Their goal was to make the white people above the african americans and they achieved this by not allowing them to have the same rights as them so that they are below them in society.

c

explanation:

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affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts