Activists are warning of a return to the Jim Crow era in America. But who or what was Jim Crow?
Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...
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Black Codes and Pig Laws
Immediately after the Civil War ended, Southern states enacted "black codes" that allowed African ... even more discriminatory laws once the Jim Crow era began. Support your local PBS station ...
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Jim Crow Laws
The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal ... Ferguson, after a black man in New Orleans attempted to sit in a whites-only railway car.
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Supreme Court won’t weigh Mississippi’s voting ban for felons
The practice was codified in the state’s 1890 constitution as part of early Jim Crow provisions attempting to limit the rights of Black residents. The disenfranchised plaintiffs’ attorneys ...