Jim Crow laws, a set of racist and discriminatory rules and regulations, were enacted <u>specially in the Southern States of the U.S. from 1877 to the beginning of the Civil Right Movement in the 1950s. </u>
The statutes prohibited African American to attend and be in certain places where White people attended, such as neighborhoods, restrooms, building entrances, elevators, cemeteries, universities, hospitals, amusement-park, cashier windows, institutions, jails, among others.