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Bookmark or Share- 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. Ferguson (1896).
- Jim Crow (article) | Khan AcademyJim Crow laws were laws created by white southerners to enforce racial segregation across the South from the 1870s through the 1960s.
- 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] Such laws remained in force until 1965. [2]
- Jim Crow Laws | Key Facts | BritannicaA list of key facts about the set of laws known as Jim Crow laws, which were an official effort to keep African Americans separate from whites throughout the United States for many years. The laws were in place from the late 1870s until the civil rights movement of the 20th century.
- What was Jim Crow - Jim Crow MuseumDonate. Image Gallery. Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. It was a way of life.
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