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Bookmark or Share- Jim Crow laws - WikipediaThe Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. [1]
- Jim Crow Laws: Definition, Facts & Timeline | HISTORYJim Crow laws were state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Enacted after the Civil War, the laws denied equal opportunity to Black citizens.
- Jim Crow law | History, Facts, & Examples | BritannicaIn the U.S. South, Jim Crow laws and legal racial segregation in public facilities existed from the late 19th century into the 1950s. The civil rights movement was initiated by Black Southerners in the 1950s and ’60s to break the prevailing pattern of segregation.
- Jim Crow Era - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United ...Jim Crow Era. After the Civil War, there was a period from about 1865 to 1877 where federal laws offered observable protection of civil rights for former slaves and free blacks; it wasn't entirely awful to be an African American, even in the South.
- The Jim Crow Era - American Battlefield TrustIn order to recreate this social status, “Jim Crow Laws” were established that limited African American's political and social rights in the Southern States. This era of racial discrimination lasted well into the twentieth century and did not end until 1965.
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