Activists are warning of a return to the Jim Crow era in America. But who or what was Jim Crow?
Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...
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Jim Crow and Plessy v. Ferguson
When whites re-gained control of Southern states’ governments ... ensconced through a battery of Southern laws and social customs known as “Jim Crow.” Schools, theaters, restaurants ...
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The origins of the civil rights movement
This was particularly the case in the southern states of the USA. Jim Crow laws denied Black people rights by enforcing segregation and discrimination in southern states. The Ku Klux Klan targeted ...