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What were the Jim Crow Laws?

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Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States and elsewhere within the United States
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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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