How Did Jim Crow Laws Affect Society

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Jim Crow was is not a person, but he did affected millions of people around the world. Crow came to personify the system of government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the United States. Jim Crow laws changed the segregation of public schools, public places, public transportation, the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. He changed the way that people were separated by skin color. In the book "The Secret Life Of Bees," it affected Lily because she had a black women who worked for them named Rosaleen, When they were walking in the street on their way to vote, a white man said many stuff to Rosaleen. After Rosaleen threw something on the mans shoes they told her to say sorry. She