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)