Dismantling Jim Crow laws was a major goal for Martin Luther ... Photograph by Bettmann, Getty In 1877, new president Rutherford B. Hayes followed through on a promise to stop federal intervention ...

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 ...

“We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we’ve ever seen since the Jim Crow era ... University School of Law ’s Brennan Center for ...

In 1877 the federal government withdrew its last troops from the region, after which Southern politicians resumed power and created Jim Crow laws, legally segregating the black and white populations.