Answer:
To enforce segregation, or the separation of different peoples
Step-by-step explanation:
The Jim Crow laws were a series of American legislation specially enacted in the Southern States, in order to enforce racial segregation and to prevent African Americans from gaining equality. They were enacted from 1877 through the beginning of the Civil Right Movement in the 1950s.
The statutes prohibited African American to attend and be in certain places where white people were, such as neighborhoods, restrooms, building entrances, schools, institutions, elevators, cemeteries, amusement-park, cashier windows, hospitals, jails, etc.