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  1. Jim Crow laws

    The 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. The last of the Jim Crow laws were generally overturned in 1965. Formal and informal racial segregation policies were present in other areas of the United States as well, even as several states outside the South had banned discrimination in public accommodations and voting. Southern laws were enacted by white-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by African Americans during the Reconstruction era. Such continuing racial segregation was also supported by the successful Lily-white movement. In practice, Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s. Wikipedia

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  2. Learn about the history of Jim Crow laws, a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation in the United States from 1865 to 1968. Explore the origins, effects and resistance of these laws, and the leaders who fought against them.
  3. britannica.com

    Ferguson, 1896) and codified by so-called Jim Crow laws. It is not clear how Jim Crow, the character that popularized blackface minstrelsy in the 19th century, became associated with these laws, but the of use of this symbol says everything about the nature and intention of the laws.
  4. britannica.com

    Dec 4, 2024Jim 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).
  5. britannica.com

    A 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.
  6. nationalgeographic.com

    "Jump, Jim Crow" Thomas Dartmouth Rice, a white man, was born in New York City in 1808. He devoted himself to the theater in his twenties, and in the early 1830s, he began performing the act ...
  7. socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu

    Sep 12, 2023Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation . Introduction: Immediately following the Civil War and adoption of the 13th Amendment, most states of the former Confederacy adopted Black Codes, laws modeled on former slave laws.These laws were intended to limit the new freedom of emancipated African Americans by restricting their movement and by forcing them into a labor economy based on low wages and debt.
  8. americanhistory.si.edu

    Jim Crow Laws "It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other in any game of cards or dice, dominoes or checkers." —Birmingham, Alabama, 1930 "Marriages are void when one party is a white person and the other is possessed of one-eighth or more negro, Japanese, or Chinese blood ...
  9. americanhistory.si.edu

    Jim Crow songbook This songbook, published in Ithaca, New York, in 1839, shows an early depiction of a minstrel-show character named Jim Crow. By the 1890s the expression "Jim Crow" was being used to describe laws and customs aimed at segregating African Americans and others. These laws were intended to restrict social contact between ...

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