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Recommended Websites

Facing History & Ourselves: Mississippi Miscegenation Laws

History of Racist U.S. Laws

List of Jim Crow laws examples by state - Wikipedia page

Racial Integrity Act

History.com Early 20th Century Jim Crow Laws (Black Codes)

United State Senate:   Landmark Legistration: Civil Rights Act of 1875

Library of Congress a lot of primary sources available here.

The National Archives is an excellent source of information.

Mississippi Encyclopedia: 1888 (segregated trains), 1904 (segregated streetcars), interracial dating and marriage (miscengenation)

American Experience (PBS) : Jim Crow Laws