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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]
- 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.
- Jim Crow Laws | Causes and Effects | BritannicaThe landmark case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) upheld the Separate Car Act and sanctioned the controversial doctrine of “separate but equal.” Throughout the country Jim Crow laws expanded segregation into nearly every aspect of black citizens’ lives.
- 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 (article) | Khan AcademyJim Crow laws were laws created by white southerners to enforce racial segregation across the South from the 1870s through the 1960s. Under the Jim Crow system, “whites only” and “colored” signs proliferated across the South at water fountains, restrooms, bus waiting areas, movie theaters, swimming pools, and public schools.
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