# Black Code

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**Black Code** or **Black Codes** may refer to:

## Law

- [Code Noir](/source/Code_Noir), or Black Code, slavery decree in 1685 France
- [Black Codes (United States)](/source/Black_Codes_(United_States)), discriminatory state and local laws passed after the Civil War in 1860s
- "Black code", another name for [Jim Crow laws](/source/Jim_Crow_laws) in 1960s

## Other

- *[Black Codes (From the Underground)](/source/Black_Codes_(From_the_Underground))*, a 1985 album by Wynton Marsalis
- [Black (code)](/source/Black_(code)), a diplomatic cypher system used by the U.S. prior to its entry into the Second World War
- [*Black Code* (film)](/source/Black_Code_(film)), a Canadian documentary film
- Sometimes Black code is synonymous for [Black bag operation](/source/Black_bag_operation)

## See also

- [Code Black (disambiguation)](/source/Code_Black_(disambiguation))

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