Jim Crow Laws

In most places across the south, blacks had few choices but to abide by the laws and accept their predicament. After Reconstruction, white southerners regained control of their states, wanting to keep blacks from dispute and refraining them from gaining civil rights. In order to maintain their slave society, southern whites continued to believe that blacks were naturally inferior to themselves and therefore were entitled to few rights. To help enforce this concept, the Jim Crow laws were created by the white southerners against the blacks. These laws, passed after the Civil War through World War II, were typically created for the discrimination against blacks by denying them their equal rights. Reconstruction further strengthened the desire to keep blacks as inferiors and withhold their rights. The South’s defeat in the Civil War, followed by Reconstruction, destroyed the slave society, but couldn’t eliminate the underlying social attitudes. The Jim Crow laws became the most effective and innovative means for racial class segregation after the emancipation of African Americans in the post-Civil War Period.
As the post-Reconstruction era progressed, white southerners created methods for undermining blacks and diluting their rights. In order to reduce the electoral power of blacks, the voting process was made absurdly complicated and unjust, only for the blacks. The system of separate ballot boxed made it virtually impossible for the inconsiderable number of blacks who were illiterate because the voter had to be able to read the labels on the boxes. While someone was voting, no one was allowed to speak, making it impossible for the illiterate blacks to virtually vote (Hauser, Pierre. "The Birth of Jim Crow" Facts On File). In addition to the complication of the voting process, polling places were situated as far as possible from centers of black population and on Election Day. To add onto the troublesome commute due to the long distance, white southerners made it