blank laws legally separated non-whites and whites “in schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, streetcars, playgrounds, hospitals, and even cemeteries.” People were required to use different facilities based on their race.
These laws were known as Jim Crow laws, which enforced segregation between whites and non-whites in public spaces. This was a form of institutionalized racism and discrimination that was prevalent in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These laws were eventually declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education.
