HATTIESBURG, Miss. – An effort in Jones County, Mississippi, to relocate segregationist water fountains that were installed during the Jim Crow era was met with resistance from voters. A ...

You may be aware that Jim Crow laws separated America's water fountains, restrooms, restaurants, lodging, transportation, and schools into black or white only spaces. However, you may not know who ...

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South.

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Jim Crow manifested in the physical separation of races. Laws mandated separate schools, restrooms, restaurants, and even drinking fountains for Black and white citizens. The Supreme Court case ...

Jim Crow Laws came after reconstruction ended in 1877. They created apartheid in the United States. Segregation was in schools and restaurants and there were whites-only bathrooms and water fountains.

Voters want Jim Crow-era water fountains outside the Jones County courthouse, with covered inscriptions of "colored" and "white," to remain in place.