Jim Crow laws,
in U.S. history, statutes enacted by Southern states and
municipalities, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation
between blacks and whites. The name is believed to be derived from a
character in a popular minstrel song.
The law segregates black people racially and judges them as inferior to white supremacists. The whites include the KKK, and they publicly hang an unwanted black person, known as 'lynch*ng', and there are white groups called 'lyn*h mobs' too.
