Origins of Jim Crow laws

During the Reconstruction period ( 1865-1877)

Just when the Plessy v Ferguson court case took place in year 1896 The Jim crow laws started being used in the southern United States. The Jim Crow laws was laws which enforced racial segregation.

They belived that if they could seperate African americans and the Whites it would make society easier for everyone to live in. The southern states had these laws where the US constution had nothing to do with which were called "Separate but equal". These laws meant that african americans and the whites were equal but seperated which really wasn't True.

Some of the Crow Laws where that blacks and whites went to seperate schools, resturants, beaches, Restrooms, etc..

List of Jim Crow laws from every state