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What is Jim Crow Laws

Comparing Black Deaths in Custody, Police Brutality, and Social Justice Solutions
Laws that were instituted by the White man during the reconstruction period after the Civil War had ended. These laws sought to maintain segregation of the races; mainly Whites and Blacks.
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Transitioning Governments and Laws
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9304-2.ch001
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This chapter focuses on governments, what type of government each country has, and how these governments transitioned as laws changed regarding within each country. Some references will be made to Australian and South African laws in comparison to the United States. For example, South Africa was a tribal land that became an Apartheid state that then became a democracy. The chapter will mainly focus on introducing the reader to each system of government and discuss any transitions in types of government. These instances will be reviewed, analyzed, and discussed. For more specific country-case-specific laws, see the three chapters on case studies.
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Twice as Good to Get Half: Content and Context of Black Male Teachers and Administrators
System of state and municipal laws that imposed racial segregation in the United States south approximately from the 1870s to 1965.
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Case Study: America
laws, both state and local that were implemented in order to enforce segregation of the Black, Indigenous and White population, etc. These laws were enacted after the South lost the Civil War.
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