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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws by WIKIPEDIA] | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws by WIKIPEDIA] | ||
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation. The origin of the term "Jim Crow" is obscure, but probably refers to slave songs that refer to an African dance called "Jump Jim Crow." | The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation. The origin of the term "Jim Crow" is obscure, but probably refers to slave songs that refer to an African dance called "Jump Jim Crow." | ||
=====Segregation in Housing and Education===== | |||
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK565026/ by NIH] | |||
Richard Rothstein, Distinguished Fellow at the Economics Policy Institute, spoke on ways in which the past has determined race-based social inequality today in the United States. He focused his presentation on federal housing policies that have resulted in residential segregation, countering the widely held assertion that these housing patterns are “de facto” because they emerged from individual or market-based activity. | |||
