African-Americans Came Out of the Civil War and Ran into Jim Crow Historian Lonnie G. Bunch III identifies 1877 as the year when all the gains of the Civil War, for Black people, began to be erased.
Commonly known as Jim Crow laws, these unfair regulations impacted every aspect of Black life in America. African Americans ...
The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century ...