Question

___ is the name used to refer to the era of legalized segregation in the United States.

Answer 1

jim crow era or simply segregation .

Answer 2

Jim Crow Era

Step-by-step explanation:

Jim Crow laws were meant to impose segregation of blacks from whites. Passed from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the mid-1950's, white southerners reasserted their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic and civil rights, such as the right to vote.

The laws are called after a white actor, who called himself Jim Crow, used black face make-up to imitate and ridicule freed Southern Slaves.