Meaning Jim Crow Laws
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Jim Crow Laws


A term describing the American racist culture against blacks, it originated as a derogatory way of depicting black people in the minstrel shows of early 19th century America. By the 1890s, the term had come to mean the separation of blacks from whites and the general customs and laws that subordinated blacks as an inferior people. Historians have u [..]
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Jim Crow Laws


Jim Crow laws refers to the U.S. state and local laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 that mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly separate but equal status for b [..]
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Jim Crow Laws


Laws that required separate but “equal” facilities for African Americans in the American South.
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