Over Time, Jim Crow became attached with the racist laws enforcing segregation and discrimination in the United States.

Jim Crow laws were a set of laws that enforced segregation against Black Americans mainly in the South.

They were designed to keep Black people as second-class citizens by separating them from white people in almost every part of life

Jim Crow laws were officially abolished in 1964 with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

While there are no longer explicit laws enforcing segregation many of the inequalities that Jim Crow created especially in education, housing, voting rights, and the criminal justice system still impact Black communities.

Jim Crow laws were first established in the late 19th century beginning in the 1870s and 1880s