Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregationWhen southern legislatures passed laws of racial segregation directed against black people at the end of the 19th century, these statutes became known as Jim Crow laws.Crow law, any of the laws that enforced racial ... U.S. South from the end of Reconstruction to the mid-20th ... Jim Crow was the name of a minstrel routine
