Separate but equal
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Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law, according to which racial segregation did not necessarily violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitutio
"We cater to white trade only". A restaurant in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1938.
A "colored" drinking fountain in Oklahoma City, 1939
1904 caricature of "White" and "Jim Crow" rail cars by John T. McCutcheon
Apartheid signs trainstation
Jim Crow laws
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The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century that enforced racial segregation. The origin of the term Jim Cro
Separate but equal
…which allowed state-sponsored segregation. Although segregation laws existed before that case, the decision emboldened segregation states during the Jim Crow era, which had commenced in 1876, and supplanted the Black Codes, which restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans during the…
c. 1832 illustration of Thomas D. Rice as Jim Crow, who the laws were named after
Freedmen voting in New Orleans in 1867
Sign for the "colored" waiting room at a bus station in Durham, North Carolina, May 1940