Jim Crow Laws Notes

1. The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation laws passed between 1876 and 1965 in the United States at the state and local level.
2. Every Southern state had its own version of the laws, and some Northern states did too.
3. The term Jim Crow came from “Jumpin’ Jim Crow,” which was a caricature [farce] of blacks. It came to also be used as a negative term for African-Americans.