 In 1890 the state legislature disenfranchised most blacks, who were a majority in the state, by creating barriers to voter registration; it also passed Jim Crow laws, segregating public facilities and treating freedmen and their descendants as second-class citizens.In the period from 1877 to 1950, Carroll County had 29 documented lynchings of African Americans, the second-highest number in the state.Nearby LeFlore County had a total of 48 lynchings in this period.