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Date c. 1877 - c. 1950
Context separate but equal • Separate Car Act • Jim Crow

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  • Common Jim Crow laws included literary tests, poll taxes, and the grandfather clause, which were all restrictions on voting meant to keep black men from casting a ballot. Bans on interracial marriage and separation between races in public and places of business were also common parts of Jim Crow.
  • The special relationship between Jim Crow laws and transit would make buses and trains a focus of anti-segregationists throughout the period of Jim Crow laws, especially during the American civil rights movement.

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