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  2. 4 days ago · 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.

  3. Aug 6, 2015 · Racial discrimination existed throughout the United States in the 20th century, but it had a special name in the South—Jim Crow. Fifty years ago this Thursday, President Lyndon B. Johnson tried...

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  4. Overview. Jim Crow laws were laws created by white southerners to enforce racial segregation across the South from the 1870s through the 1960s. Under the Jim Crow system, “whites only” and “colored” signs proliferated across the South at water fountains, restrooms, bus waiting areas, movie theaters, swimming pools, and public schools.

  5. Oct 19, 2023 · Thomas Dartmouth Rice was a white American stage performer in the early 1830s. He is best known for popularizing the derogatory practice of blackface with an act called “Jump, Jim Crow” (or “Jumping Jim Crow”). Portrait from the New York Public Library Digital Collections

  6. Aug 6, 2015 · Racial discrimination existed throughout the United States in the 20th century, but it had a particular name in the South: Jim Crow. More than 50 years ago, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tried to bury Jim Crow by signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

  7. Apr 29, 2021 · Jim Crow was the name given to the system of racial segregation in the US – predominantly in the South but holding influence all over the country – from the period immediately after the American Civil War (the end of the Reconstruction era) to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

  8. The origins of Jim Crow - introduction. The Jim Crow Segregation system, prevalent in the U.S. from 1877 to 1954, stripped African Americans of voting rights and enforced separate public accommodations. The term "Jim Crow" originated from a minstrel show character.

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