Jim crow laws

Jim 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).

You may be aware that Jim Crow laws separated America's water fountains, restrooms, restaurants, lodging, transportation, and schools into black or white only spaces. However, you may not know who Jim Crow was.

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