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What were the Jim Crow laws? Give some examples

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Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. All were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period. The laws were enforced until 1965.

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Poll taxes, segregated schools, all laws that were repealed in the civil rights movement

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