The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century ...

So that’s where the “solution” came in. A set of segregationist laws, known as Jim Crow after a minstrel show character, were white Southerners’ best attempt to restore their former way of ...

After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, segregation became even more ensconced through a battery of Southern laws and social customs known as “Jim Crow.” Schools, theaters, restaurants ...

As the 2025 legislative session draws near, hundreds of Louisiana prisoners remain in political limbo. But a new bill could provide them with relief.

Laws that legalized the segregation and disenfranchisement of Black people were named “Jim Crow,” after a Black minstrel show character. These laws were part of a racial caste system operating ...

These segregation laws became known as the Jim Crow laws. close Jim Crow lawsThe laws that introduced segregation in the US South (the laws that kept black people and white people apart).

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century ...