The Jim Crow laws occurred in America.
The Confederate States of America ( CSA or C.S. ) , commonly referred to as the Confederacy , was a self-proclaimed nation of 11 secessionist slave-holding states of the United States , existing from 1861 to 1865 . Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States . They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America , starting in 1890 with a `` separate but equal '' status for African Americans in railroad cars .