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 ...

Ferguson, the Jim Crow laws and customs that emerged required Black and white people to be separated in virtually every part of life. They used separate restrooms, sat in separate sections on ...

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

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 ...

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.

Segregation of public facilities — including water fountains and restrooms — was officially outlawed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2 ...

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

Separate water fountains for Black people still stand in the South ... the Jim Crow laws and customs that emerged required Black and white people to be separated in virtually every part of life.