Jim Crow Laws: Racial Segregation In The Southern United States

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Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. In the book on page 196 it says, “ All passengers stations for waiting for the buses in the state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and ticket window for the white and colored races.” This Jim Crow law is saying that while people are waiting for the buses whites and blacks have to be separated. They can’t get tickets in the same stand or be in the same room. My next example is on page 197 and it states, “it shall be unlawful for colored people to frequent any parks owned or maintained by the city for the benefit, use and enjoyment of white persons… and unlawful for any white person to

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