Jim Crow Laws were statutes and ordinances established between 1874 and 1975 to separate the white and black races in the American South.

(Statute). Jim Crow segregation was a way of life that combined a system of anti-black laws and race-prejudiced cultural practices. The term "Jim Crow" is often used as a synonym for racial segregation, particularly in the American South.The Jim Crow South was the era during which local and state laws enforced the legal segregation of white and black citizens from the 1870s into the 1960s. Jim Crow laws originated in 1865 after the end of the Civil War and lasted until the 1960s. Following the pattern of states bordering the Confederacy, Oklahoma strongly supported separation of the races with passage of 18 Jim Crow laws between 1890 and 1957.1890: Education.

There is no precise start or end date. The popularity of minstrel shows aided the spread of Jim Crow as a racial slur. In the South, Former Confederate States enacted Jim Crow Laws to restrict African Americans and ensure that they remain segregated under a “separate but equal” status.

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. The Jim Crow system dominated the southern and border states, though Jim Crow laws and attitudes could be found in the Northeast, the Midwest and the West as well. Jim Crow Laws: After the contentious election of 1876, the Era of Reconstruction came to an end when President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew the last of the federal troops from the South.

By the end of the 19th century, Jim Crow was being used to describe laws and customs that oppressed blacks.

1870 A Virginia law made it illegal for black and white children to attend the same schools. Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War. In theory, it was to create "separate but equal" treatment, but in practice Jim Crow Laws condemned black citizens to inferior treatment and facilities. Jim Crow laws began in the 1870s and 1880s during Reconstruction, and were bolstered by the separate-but-equal doctrine, established in 1896 in the SCOTUS case of Plessy v. Ferguson. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans.

I. Jim Crow was Dehumanizing: The Culture of Jim Crow Jim Crow was an entire way of life dedicated to asserting and maintaining the superiority of whites over blacks. Every three years an election for school electors to be held to vote for or against separate schools for white and colored children.1897: Education.