Thanks to Curiosity Stream for sponsoring this episode. Go to https://curiositystream.com/CynicalHistorian and use the code CynicalHistorian for a $14.99 annual subscription Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Other areas in the United States were also affected by formal and informal policies of segregation, but many states outside the South had adopted laws, beginning in the late nineteenth century, that variously banned discrimination in public accommodations and voting. De jure and de facto disenfranchisement and fearmongering led to this oppression. My US history lectures in chronological order:    • US history lectures   ------------------------------------------------------------ See pinned comment and its replies for notes, responses, and errata readings assigned for this week of class Plessy v. Ferguson (1869), Opinion, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/163/537#writing-USSC_CR_0163_0537_ZO Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890), http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/18-industrial-america/jacob-riis-how-the-other-half-lives-1890/ Bibliography Ely Aaronson, From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime: The Criminalization of Racial Violence in American History (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014). https://amzn.to/3FSkHqm Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, new ed. (1988; New York: Perennial Classics, 2002). https://amzn.to/34lFOhq David Oshinsky, Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice (New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1997). https://amzn.to/2udhA8Q Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017). https://amzn.to/3wkhudA ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: null Support the channel through PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or by purchasing MERCH: null LET'S CONNECT: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/cynicalhistorian Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CynicalHistory/ Discord: https://discord.gg/Ukthk4U Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cynical_History Chapters: 00:00 intro and promo 2:12 framing 3:50 scare-mongering 4:43 end of reconstruction 9:03 disenfranchisement 13:57 segregation 19:33 Woodrow Wilson 23:21 beginning of opposition