Jim crow

You may be aware that Jim Crow laws separated America's water fountains, restrooms, restaurants, lodging, transportation, and schools into black or white only spaces. However, you may not know who Jim Crow was.

The famed photographer's LIFE magazine images document the lives of an extended African-American family in 1950s segregated Alabama

Jim Crow law, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the U.S. South from the end of Reconstruction to the mid-20th century. The segregation principle was codified on local and state levels and most famously with the Supreme Court’s ‘separate but equal’ decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).

“O.N. Pruitt’s Possum Town” captures the soul — and soullessness — of a Mississippi town in the first half of the 20th century.

Kids learn about the history of Jim Crow Laws including segregation in the South, example laws, grandfather clauses, black codes, and how they got the name Jim Crow.

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Mr. T. Rice as the original Jim Crow

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