Jim Crow Laws and the Spanish-American War
Introduction The Jim Crow system and the Spanish-American War are often taught as separate topics: one concerns racial segregation within the United States, while the other concerns war, empire, and overseas expansion in 1898. Studied together, they reveal a central contradiction in the nation’s development at the end of the nineteenth century. The United States expanded its power abroad while Black citizens in the South were being disfranchised, segregated, economically

