Which term applied to the variety of laws enacted by state and local governments across the South in the late 1800s and early 1900s that required and enforced racial segregation, while prohibiting service in state militias and admission to colleges?

a. Jim Crow laws
b. Tuskegee laws
c. equality statutes
d. racial ordinances
e. race protection acts


ANS: A

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