In reality, Jim Crow laws were established and enforced ... 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. Still, both Black men and women continued to face voter suppression until the civil rights movement ...

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal ... Ferguson, after a black man in New Orleans attempted to sit in a whites-only railway car.

Many black authors had written about the hardship of living in the Jim Crow South. A few white writers ... readers can identify and perhaps begin to face their own denial of prejudice.

close Jim Crow lawsThe laws that introduced segregation in the US South (the laws that kept black people and white people apart). These laws were strictly enforced in the south of the country.