Jim Crow Must Go

Jim Crow laws??were state and local ordinances that enforced??racial segregation??in the??South.??These laws were passed 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 people during the post-Civil War??Reconstruction period. Upheld by the supreme Court in 1896, they were finally abolished in 1965 with the passage of sweeping civil rights legislation.??