How Did Jim Crow Laws Make African Americans

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Travis McGahee, was an African American man at the times of the rule of the Jim Crow Laws. He remembers the hammy downs of school books from the white children that would use them brand new. Also remembering the chants yelled from outside of the school saying, “Bonnie and Clyde Were sitting by the river Eating chocolate liver Along came a nigger And pushed them in the river.” The Jim crow Laws did make African Americans people look like worthless humans. They treated them like animals because the whites thought that they were on the earth to only work. Since they thought this, they gave them zero respect and just let them work. These laws were created because, the white people of America wanted to be separated from black people in every bit,