LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Jim Crow: Laws
built 200 days ago
Many of the discriminatory Jim Crow laws were enacted to support racial segregation in everyday life. They required black and white people to use separate water fountains, public schools, public bath houses, restaurants, public libraries, buses and rail cars—although, even without legal segregation, the desire of the white majority to use the frequently inferior facilities set aside for black use was admittedly limited.
Source:
By the 1890s, as the gains of Reconstruction were stripped away, southern states began enacting Jim Crow laws that enforced separate facilities for blacks and whites. Here are samples of the laws enacted by various states.
Source:
Because Parks wasn't a lawbreaker, the local NAACP decided to use her as a test case to challenge the Jim Crow laws. Her righteous cause drew widespread support and launched the civil rights movement in earnest.
Source:
In conjunction with the laws there was Jim Crow etiquette. A series of unwritten rules governing how Blacks and Whites should interact. Breaking of this code could result in a lynching (1878-1898 saw 10,000 lynchings) or a even more sadistic murder (Sam Hose for example).
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Laws