White Americans believed that African Americans represented an inferior and ultimately dangerous race that needed to be contained and segregated from mixing with the white race. It is said that the founder of Jim Crow laws intent was discrimination and validated the laws using both religion and science to justify his prejudices of African
White Americans believed that African Americans represented an inferior and ultimately dangerous race that needed to be contained and segregated from mixing with the white race. It is said that the founder of Jim Crow laws intent was discrimination and validated the laws using both religion and science to justify his prejudices of African