Additionally blacks got punished for not following the Jim Crow laws .Blacks who violated the Jim Crow rules risked a lot. For example Rosa Parks she violated these rules by not sitting at the colored area of the bus her punishment was to be arrested. African Americans who disobeyed the state's transport segregation policies were arrested and fined. Jim Crow laws are the reason that blacks protested. Another example is when four black college students sat at a “whites only” lunch counter.They were shoved and kicked for sitting at the counter. Most of the time the results are violent. Segregated lunch counters were common in the South because of numerous Jim Crow laws. The sit-in protests caught attention to these injustices through non violent
