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Why were the Jim Crow laws enacted?

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Because the southerners wanted to take away the rights of african americans.

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To enforce segregation among whites and blacks.

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They were laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites, Jim Crow laws were state and local laws passed from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the mid-1950s by which white southerners reasserted their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic, and civil rights, such as the right to vote.

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