The Jim Crow Laws were racial segregation laws. They were enacted at the end of the 19th century. Even though the laws angered the African Americans, they knew they could not stop the whites and they just lived with it. These laws caused the African Americans to be treated unfairly by the whites and the were looked at as inferior. All of the laws involved public segregation. The segregation happened in schools, hospitals, restaurants, train stations, barber shops, movie theaters, where to sit, where to enter and exit, and basically any other public feature. African Americans were purposefully treated unequally through these laws.
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