What were jim crow laws?Jim Crow Laws were meant to take away the newly won rights of African Americans at this time. They led to segregation, which was legal for a century after the end of the Civil War. They segregated everything from the hospitals to the schools, keeping whites and blacks completely separate in society.
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what other ways were african americans being kept from exercising their new rights?In addition to sharecropping keeping African Americans at an economic disadvantage, radical racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan were created to scare African Americans. The KKK made it a priority to keep African Americans from participating in the government. They threatened, beat, and even killed African Americans to keep them from voting for candidates who were working toward racial equality. The KKK also attacked "sympathizers", or people who were helping African Americans.
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