Jim Crow laws, a set of racist and discriminatory rules and regulations against African Americans, were enacted

Jim Crow laws were enacted primarily in the South after the Civil War, especially from the mid- to late 1800s onward. They enforced racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans. The choice that matches both the region and time period is “in the South starting in the mid- to late 1800s.”

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