Jim Crow law: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Jim Crow Museum - What was Jim Crow. Oct 25, 2026
Add new Web site: Social Welfare History Project - Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation. Aug 28, 2026
Add new Web site: Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project - US History II: Gilded Age to Present - Empire and Jim Crow. Jan 17, 2026
Add new Web site: Saint Louis University School of Law - Scholarship Commons - Jim Crow's Unwritten Code (PDF). Aug 29, 2025
Add new Web site: Scholarly Commons at Boston University School of Law - Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow, Its Assumptions and Implications (PDF). Jul 11, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 14, 2025
Add new Web site: Black History in America - Jim Crow Laws. Dec 29, 2023
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Jim Crow and African American Life. Mar 28, 2023
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Jim Crow. Jan 02, 2023
Add new Web site: Social Welfare History Project - Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation. Sep 09, 2022
Add new Web site: Jim Crow Museum - What was Jim Crow. Aug 18, 2022
Media added. Feb 12, 2021
Add new Web site: PBS LearningMedia - Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise - Memory and Setting in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". Aug 21, 2020
Changed “black” to “Black” throughout article. Jul 23, 2020
Corrected display issue. Aug 21, 2019
Corrected display issue. Jul 19, 2017
Add new Web site: Black Past - Jim Crow Laws: Tennessee, 1866-1955. Mar 31, 2017
Media added. Apr 21, 2015
Add new Web site: CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture - Jim Crow Law. Feb 12, 2015
Article thoroughly revised and updated. Dec 30, 2014
Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Freedom Riders - Jim Crow Laws. Mar 28, 2014
Add new Web site: Ferris State University - Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia. Dec 03, 2013
Add new Web site: National Park Service - Jim Crow Law. Dec 03, 2013
Add new Web site: Teach Democracy - A Brief History of Jim Crow. Dec 03, 2013
Add new Web site: United States History - Jim Crow Laws. Jul 22, 2010
Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Jim Crow Law. Jul 22, 2010
Add new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - How the Civil Rights Movement Worked. Jul 22, 2010
Article revised. Dec 10, 2004
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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