Jim crow laws were upheld in 1896 in the case of plessy v Ferguson, in which the supreme court laid out its separate but equal legal doctrine concerning facilities for african americans Public education had essentially been segregated since it began during the. Jim crow laws were state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation Enacted after the civil war, the laws. Black codes and jim crow laws were laws passed at different periods in the southern united states to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of black voters.
In fact, the civil rights of blacks began to be further impinged upon by a series of laws, collectively called jim crow laws, designed to segregate, discriminate, and intimidate. As a result, jim crow laws established two worlds in the south
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