The Jim Crow laws were enacted before the American Civil War.
Enacted by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures in the late nineteenth century after the Reconstruction period , these laws continued to be enforced until 1965 .	Reconstruction period	Reconstruction era of the United States
The term Reconstruction Era , in the context of the history of the United States , has two senses : the first covers the complete history of the entire country from 1865 to 1877 following the American Civil War -LRB- 1861 to 1865 -RRB- ; the second sense focuses on the attempted transformation of the Southern United States from 1863 to 1877 , as directed by Congress , with the reconstruction of state and society .	American Civil War	American Civil War	United States	United States	Southern United States	Southern United States	history of the United States	history of the United States
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States .	racial segregation	racial segregation	Southern United States	Southern United States
