Jim Crow laws, a set of racist and discriminatory rules and regulations, were enacted specially in the Southern States of the U.S. from 1877 to the beginning of the Civil Right Movement in the 1950s.
The statutes prohibited African American to attend and be in certain places where White people attended, such as neighborhoods, restrooms, building entrances, elevators, cemeteries, universities, hospitals, amusement-park, cashier windows, institutions, jails, among others.