Jim Crow laws
What Jim Crow laws means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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A feature of the position of African Americans in US society, listed alongside access to education, voting rights and lack of equality in employment.
Laws that legally mandated the segregation of public spaces, education and transport in the Southern states.
Topics that use Jim Crow laws
- The USA 1945–1974: The People and the State (J410/07) - Post-war challenges in the USA 1945–1954 (OCR GCSE)
- Option 33: Key topic 1: The development of the civil rights movement, 1954–60 - 1 The position of Black Americans in the early 1950s (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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- Disenfranchisement
- McCarthyism and its support and opposition
- Red Scare of the late 1940s
- Segregation
- Discrimination
- Media campaigns and American values
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