Black Code

Black Code or Black Codes may refer to:

Law

• Code Noir, or Black Code, slavery decree in 1685 France
• Black Codes (United States), discriminatory state and local laws passed after the Civil War in 1860s
• "Black code", another name for Jim Crow laws in 1960s

Other

• Black Codes (From the Underground), a 1985 album by Wynton Marsalis
• Black (code), a diplomatic cypher system used by the U.S. prior to its entry into the Second World War
• Black Code (film), a Canadian documentary film
• Sometimes Black code is synonymous for Black bag operation

See also

• Code Black (disambiguation)