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

Jim Crow laws became widespread in the South after Reconstruction, beginning in the late 1800s. They enforced racial segregation and discrimination, especially after Southern states adopted segregation laws in the 1870s and later. The correct choice is “in the South starting in the mid- to late 1800s”; these laws were not first enacted nationwide or in the early 1800s.

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