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Jim Crow Laws: Statutes

Federal

13th, 14th & 15th Amendment

Enforcement Acts

U.S. Senate: The Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871

Louisiana

An Act To promote the comfort of passengers on railway trains ; requiring all railway companies carrying passengers on their trains , in this State , to provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races , by providing separate coaches or compartments so as to secure separate accommodations ; defining the duties of the officers of such railways… No. 111

Link to the act (#164-165/276 pages 152-153)

Alabama

A crime for a female white nurse to nurse a black man (does not mention black women).

1915 Ala. Laws 727 (available at https://archive.org/details/alabama-acts-1915_general/page/n847/mode/2up page 908 of the pdf, page 727 of the text).

Examples of Jim Crow Laws