Jim Crow laws were southern laws put in place after the passing of the emancipation proclamation which freed the slaves in an attempt to maintain the racist structure in their society. These laws impacted Black Americans by discriminating against them using segregation, restricting voting rights, and limiting educational resources in order to create a society that made it hard for them to succeed. One of the main ways that Jim Crow laws controlled southern politics was by suppressing the black vote by creating an unfair system for them which made it almost impossible for them to represent themselves politically. As we see in The American Yawp “from roughly 1890 to 1908, southern states implemented de jure, or legal, disfranchisement. They