![Jim Crow Era - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States - HUSL Library at Howard University School of Law Jim Crow Era - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States - HUSL Library at Howard University School of Law](http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/1998/edu/segregated.jpg)
Jim Crow Era - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States - HUSL Library at Howard University School of Law
National Civil Rights Museum - #OnThisDay in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court established in Plessy v. Ferguson the ""separate but equal"" doctrine. This ruling would legally lengthen racism through Jim Crow laws
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