How much "better" was it for black people in the North, compared to the South, before and during the Civil Rights Era?

by Planague

It's all before my time, and the books I've read, including school textbooks, focus on the South. I only have a hazy idea that the North was terribly racist by today's standards, but still better than the South.

Lazarus_Medium

There was absolutely no difference black people were treated like dirt wherever they went.