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[[File:Jim Crow.jpg|thumb|right|A typical sign seen during the Jim Crow era denoting segregated bathrooms.]]

The '''Jim Crow laws''' were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States, largely arising in the immediate aftermath of the end of [[slavery]] after the [[American Civil War]]. The Jim Crow era is considered to be the peak of [[White Power Movement|white supremacy]] in the United States.

The '''Jim Crow laws''' were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States, largely arising in the immediate aftermath of the end of [[slavery]] after the [[American Civil War]]. The Jim Crow era is considered to be the peak of [[White Power Movement|white supremacy]] and [[Negrophobia|anti-black]] [[racism]] in the United States.

Other areas of the United States were affected by formal and informal policies of segregation as well, but many states outside the South had adopted laws, beginning in the late 19th century, banning [[discrimination]] in public accommodations and voting. Southern laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by African Americans during the Reconstruction period. Jim Crow laws were enforced until 1965.

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 [[File:Jim Crow.jpg|thumb|right|A typical sign seen during the Jim Crow era denoting segregated bathrooms.]]
-The '''Jim Crow laws''' were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States, largely arising in the immediate aftermath of the end of [[slavery]] after the [[American Civil War]]. The Jim Crow era is considered to be the peak of [[White Power Movement|white supremacy]] in the United States.
+The '''Jim Crow laws''' were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States, largely arising in the immediate aftermath of the end of [[slavery]] after the [[American Civil War]]. The Jim Crow era is considered to be the peak of [[White Power Movement|white supremacy]] and [[Negrophobia|anti-black]] [[racism]] in the United States.
 Other areas of the United States were affected by formal and informal policies of segregation as well, but many states outside the South had adopted laws, beginning in the late 19th century, banning [[discrimination]] in public accommodations and voting. Southern laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by African Americans during the Reconstruction period. Jim Crow laws were enforced until 1965.