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Why were the Jim Crow laws important?

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They were important since it sparked the civil rights movement(Movement to stop slavery). Which indeed stopped slavery and ended segregation. (But in the world today some people are still races.)  
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Because they were the start of the civil rights movement. The Jim Crow Laws allowed segregation.
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