Jim Crows
Racial separation statutes
Jim Crows refers to the system of laws and customs that enforced racial segregation in the American South from the 1870s through the 1960s.
Named after a minstrel show character, Jim Crow laws mandated separate facilities for Black and white Americans—schools, restaurants, drinking fountains, railroad cars.
Under Jim Crow, a Black man couldn't use the same entrance as whites.
The term appears as both noun and adjective: the Jim Crow era, Jim Crow policies.
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- segregationForced separation by group
- minstrel showsRacist theatrical variety format
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
racism · poll taxes · bigotry · sharecropping · intolerance · discrimination · literacy tests · lynching · Plessy v. Ferguson · Voting Rights Act · Civil Rights Act · convict leasing · Supreme Court rulings · sundown towns · NAACP · civil rights movement · subjugation · racial stereotypes
Jim Crowscivil rights
Guaranteed individual legal protections
equal protection · desegregation · integration · Brown v. Board of Education · racial equality
Jim Crowsracial integration
Unifying separated ethnic groups
egalitarianism · racial justice · inclusive society · pluralism