Though the 1875 Civil Rights Act had stated that all races were entitled to equal treatment in public accommodations, an 1883 Supreme Court decision clarified that the law did not apply to private ...

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 ...

Poll taxes white people did not have to pay. Laws restricting where Black people could stand in public. Even after the 19th Amendment finally gave women the right to vote in 1920, Jim Crow laws ...

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

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).