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Bookmark or Share- Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation - Social Welfare History ProjectJim Crow Laws were statutes and ordinances established between 1874 and 1975 to separate the white and black races in the American South. In theory, it was to create “separate but equal” treatment, but in practice Jim Crow Laws condemned black citizens to inferior treatment and facilities.
- Jim Crow law | History, Facts, & Examples | BritannicaJim Crow law, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the U.S. South from the end of Reconstruction to the mid-20th century. The segregation principle was codified on local and state levels and most famously with the Supreme Court’s ‘separate but equal’ decision in Plessy v.
- What Is the Origin of the Term “Jim Crow”? - Encyclopedia BritannicaFrom the end of Reconstruction until the 1960s, racial segregation in the American South was enforced with so-called Jim Crow laws—but who was Jim Crow?
- 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]
- Who Was Jim Crow? - National GeographicRacial discrimination existed throughout the United States in the 20th century, but it had a special name in the South—Jim Crow. Fifty years ago this Thursday, President Lyndon B. Johnson tried...
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