Jim Crow laws

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the southern United States from the late nineteenth century until the 1960s. Upheld by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), they segregated schools, transport and public places and went with measures that disenfranchised Black voters, until they were struck down by court rulings and the civil rights laws of 1964 and 1965.