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The Jim Crow Laws
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Jim Crow Laws are laws that were passed by southern legislatures that segregated, or separated, different racial groups in public places. The state of Alabama had many of these laws, and their effect on the African Americans of that state was great.
In Alabama, a lot of Jim Crow Laws were created ....
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.... segregation was Plessy V. Ferguson in 1896. Homer Plessy filed a lawsuit because he felt that he was segregated unfairly on a train. The Supreme Court said that segregation was legal as long as facilities for blacks and whites were equal (separate but equal). This decision led to and outburst of more Jim Crow Laws in the southern states. The next court case was Guinn V. the United States in 1915. In this ruling, the Supreme Court said that Grandfather Clauses, laws that said you could vote.... |
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