Was the term "Jim Crow Laws" used during the actual legal discourse of the time? Was is a blanket term used by the people who lived when the laws were still enforced? Or was it a term that was dubbed when looking back upon the set of laws to group them. If the term was not created by historians, which side used to term? Was it pejorative?
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