The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century ...
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These Jim Crow-era laws included a lifetime voting ban on any Mississippi resident convicted of certain felonies. That lifetime ban is still in effect in the state today, more than 130 years later.