What Are The Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow laws were a group of laws that deprived African Americans

and other races of basic American rights. The Jim Crow laws tried to

promote the claim “Separate but equal” but ended up denying races

(other than whites) of privileges that were second nature to whites.

Things such As drinking from a water fountain became difficult to blacks.

One example of unnecessary segregation was the law, “Conservation

Commission shall have the right to make segregation of the white and

colored races as to exercise the rights of fishing, boating, and bathing.”

(Oklahoma SB book 199) This law became a disadvantage to people of

color because the supplies for fishing and bathing were much worse

than the supplies that whites used. Another Jim Crow law that had

In conclusion, The Jim Crow Laws

were mostly made to favor whites instead of trying to promote the claim,

“Separate but equal.” I am glad that these laws have been terminated

Because such laws in today's economy would just start pure