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Bookmark or Share- 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 Laws Timeline - Encyclopedia BritannicaA timeline covering the origins and history of Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation in the United States. After Reconstruction southern legislatures passed laws requiring segregation of whites and blacks on public transportation.
- A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States: Jim Crow EraJim 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.
- 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 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]
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