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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] Such laws remained in force until 1965. [2]
- Who Was Jim Crow? - National Geographic SocietyRacial 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 [August 6,2015], U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tried to bury Jim Crow by signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
- Jim Crow Laws: Definition, Facts & Timeline | HISTORYAt the start of the 1880s, big cities in the South were not wholly beholden to Jim Crow laws and Black Americans found more freedom in them. This led to substantial Black populations moving...
- The Great Migration (1910-1970) | National ArchivesAlthough the migrants found better jobs and fled the South entrenched in Jim Crow, many African Americans faced injustices and difficulties after migrating. The Red Summer of 1919 was rooted in tensions and prejudice that arose from white people having to adjust to the demographic changes in their local communities.
- 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.
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