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PRIMARY SOURCE SET: J CROW IN AMERICA
Historical Background Jim Crow, or segregation, laws of the late 19th and early 20th centuries effectively divided the Ameri-can South into black and white in almost every as-pect of public life. The laws codified practices that had developed over many decades during and after slavery, and the laws made the custom of racial separation much more rigid. Jim Crow laws ex-tended to restaurants, hotels, theaters, bus stations, parks, public restrooms and drinking fountains, public schools, and the United States military. The term Jim Crow grew out of nineteenth-century minstrelsy and was first applied to segre-gated facilities in the pre-Civil War North. While there is evidence of the passage of some scattered Jim Crow laws in the South during Reconstruction, segregation enforced by law did not immediately replace slavery in the aftermath of emancipation. During the 1870s and 1880s, however, states be-gan to pass Jim Crow laws, with one of the first passed by Tennessee in 1875.
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