The Jim Crow laws were used as a way to keep African Americans from having the freedom that the end to slavery brought them. The Jim Crow Laws would prohibit them from entering certain places, they had to give up their seat on the bus, kids couldn't go to a school with white children, etc. Southerners would often use violence. During this time there were many lynchings, not to mention that the Supreme Court wasn't doing anything when they ruled that "separate but equal" was lawful. The Jim Crow Laws were just another way to keep African Americans from having the freedom that they wanted.
