Laws that enforced racial segregation were known as what? A. Bell laws B. Jim Crow laws C. Reconstruction laws D. Reconstruction laws

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The Jim Crow Laws were laws that enforced racial segregation. They were forced after the Reconstruction period in the South and they were enforced until 1965.

B. Jim Crow laws

Jim Crow laws were a series of restrictions on black civil rights that enforced racial segregation in the United States. They were enacted especially in the Southern States of America through almost a century, from 1877 to the beginning of the Civil Right Movement in the 1950s,

The statutes prohibited African American to attend and be in certain places where White people were, such as neighborhoods, restrooms, building entrances, elevators, cemeteries, amusement-park, cashier windows, churches, hospitals, jails, universities, etc.