Jim Crow Laws

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. Such laws remained in force until 1965. Formal and informal segregation policies were present in other areas of the United States as well, even as several states outside the South had banned discrimination in public accommodations and voting. Southern laws were enacted by white-dominated state legislatures (see "Redeemers") to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by African Americans during the Reconstruction …

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The Indian Press Ltd. · 1950 English

3. The Government of India undertake to arange the supply of 20 000 tone of jute manufactures of Indian origin to the Jute Board of the Pakistani Government in accordance …

owing to his sympathy for The Negroes. The 'Jim-Crow' laws in America do not allow the coloured people


1950 English

In the course of his message to one of the Annual f unctions of the Liberal Party in New York Truman made the following significant observation : The world today …

owing to his sympathy for the Negroes. The 'Jim Crow ' laws in America do not allow the coloured people


1927 English

The Imperialists divide theselves into two parties: (a) The advocates of pure force and no nonsense; (b) The liberals who trot out the plea of trusteeship by convincing the wards' …

civilized Negroes of America.'* Besides these, `Jim Crow Laws' are in force in all the former Slave States


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1895 English

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