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28 lut 2018 · Jim Crow laws were state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation and discriminated against African Americans for over 100 years. Learn about the origins, effects and resistance of these laws, and how they shaped the history of the United States.
26 paź 2024 · Jim Crow law, in U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
Podstawą prawną dla prawa Jima Crowa było orzeczenie Sądu Najwyższego (1896), który – uznając, że XIII i XIV poprawki do Konstytucji, znoszące niewolnictwo i umacniające równość między rasami, nie zabroniły ich segregacji – wprowadził zasadę „równi, ale oddzieleni”.
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. [1] The last of the Jim Crow laws were overturned in 1965. [2]
Jim Crow laws made it difficult or impossible for black citizens to vote, be elected to office, serve on juries, or participate as equals in the economic or social life of their area. To escape segregation and violence in the South, many black citizens migrated to cities in the North and West.
6 sie 2015 · Racial discrimination existed throughout the United States in the 20th century, but it had a special name in the South—Jim Crow. Fifty years ago this Thursday, President Lyndon B. Johnson tried...
A list of key facts about the set of laws known as Jim Crow laws, which were an official effort to keep African Americans separate from whites throughout the United States for many years. The laws were in place from the late 1870s until the civil rights movement of the 20th century.
