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What is the purpose of the jim crow laws

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The Jim Crow laws were meant to keep African Americans from practicing their rights. 
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  • Jim Crow Laws in the South were legal means to separate Blacks. segregation was the laws. Blacks used different washrooms, sat on another benches in park, drink water from different water fountains, washed their clothes on different laundry, even when they travel in Bus they should give their seats to white people and always sit behind the white people.
  • A group of states enforced segregation through Jim crow laws and could impose legal punishments for not following the Jim Crow laws.
  • Jim Crow Law segregated the African Americans from other Americans this law made segregation legal.

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