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Jim Crow Law

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Jim Crow Law

Law that enforced racial segregation in the U.S. South between 1877 and the 1950s. The term, taken from a minstrel-show routine, became a derogatory epithet for African Americans. After Reconstruction, Southern legislatures passed laws requiring segregation of whites and “persons of colour” on public transportation. These later extended to schools, restaurants, and other public places. In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education; later rulings struck down other Jim Crow laws.
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Jim Crow laws, the KKK, and race riots are proof of Lincoln's point.
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The amendment--passed by the legislature on February 15 and headed to voters in November--fueled the bold campaign by about a dozen activists, who hoped the stickers would bring back bad memories of the Jim Crow laws that separated blacks and whites last century.
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Nineteen-year-old college sophomore Celeste Tyree travels to a small Mississippi town to organize a voter registration project, and prepare townspeople to pass the state's convoluted voting test to defy the Jim Crow laws meant to exclude black citizens from the polls.
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