When did the Jim Crow laws come into effect in the US

[medjuck]

How long after re-construction were the Jim Crow laws passed? And how long was the reconstruction period? (We didn't learn that much about American history where I grew up in Canada. My US geography isn't very good either. Until this year I thought

Colorado was on the Canadian border. )

[clifford_thornton]

Jim Crow

[A Lark Ascending]

These are good too:

http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/history.htm

http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/jimcrowl...tionjimcrow.htm

[Jazzmoose]

Reconstruction was ended by the compromise election of 1876. The Jim Crow laws began arising shortly afterwards but really hit their stride in the 1890s. And don't feel alone; at least through the midseventies such things weren't studied in the United States either...