title: Black Code
text: # 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
  