The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century ...

So that’s where the “solution” came in. A set of segregationist laws, known as Jim Crow after a minstrel show character, were white Southerners’ best attempt to restore their former way of ...

This was particularly the case in the southern states of the USA. Jim Crow laws denied Black people rights by enforcing segregation and discrimination in southern states. The Ku Klux Klan targeted ...