23 jan 1890 ano - Jim Crow Laws/Disenfranchisement started (1890)

Descrição:

Jim crow laws legalized segregation between African Americans and whites. The Jim Crow laws restricted the rights of African Americans to use public facilities, schools, to vote, to find decent employment, basically excluding African Americans from exercising their rights as citizens of the United States. The ruling for the Plessy v Ferguson case provided justification for these cruel laws.