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The Jim Crow Laws were segregation laws that separated black and white people in the Southern United States. The Jim Crow Laws came into play after the Reconstruction period and continued to be enforced until 1965. The status for African Americans was "separate but equal" but were still treated with the utmost of disrespect and inequality. The Jim Crow laws mandated the segregation of everything. Every where you went, everything was segregated: bathrooms, water fountains, waiting rooms, sections of the local buses, movie theaters, etc. Everything for African Americans was underfunded and were on a lower social status of white people. It took many years and a lot of fighting in court, but the Jim Crow laws were dissolved. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were what helped to overrule the Jim Crow laws. Ida B. Wells was a very important women during the time of segregation. She was an early leader of the Civil Rights Movement and active in women's rights and the woman's suffrage movement. She established several notable woman organizations.

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