Colored
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Colored is a racial descriptor historically used in the United States during the Jim Crow era to refer to an African American. In both the United States and United Kingdom, it may be considered a slur
Photograph by Russell Lee showing historical use of the term in the US in contrast with "white". Besides the big signs, the water cooler itself is labelled with a sign reading "colored".
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
Colored
…Colored (or coloured) is a racial descriptor historically used in the United States during the Jim Crow era to refer to an African American. In both the United States and United Kingdom, it may be considered a slur. The word colored (Middle English…
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
1904 caricature of "White" and "Jim Crow" rail cars by John T. McCutcheon. Despite Jim Crow's legal pretense that the races be "separate but equal" under the law, non-whites were given inferior facilities and treatment.