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What were jim crow laws

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From the 1880s-1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws. Viva la ChaCha!

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Description: From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows)

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Legal and social restrictions that separated African Americans from white Americans during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Jim Crow laws were enacted by Southern states beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between blacks and whites.

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