History Of Slavery In The U.S & Imposition Of Jim Crow

History Of Slavery In The U.S & Imposition Of Jim Crow

A term possibly derived from the title of an early black minstrel song that refers to the segregation of blacks and whites and the policies and laws enforcing it. Although practiced in the South during Reconstruction with the establishment of "Black Codes" that restricted the civil rights of freed slaves, Jim Crow became formalized in laws after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). Politically, the term Jim Crow refers to both the laws that enforced racial segregation ...