After the Civil War, African Americans were supposed to be free and treated equal, but many people, especially in the south, still showed animosity towards them and many still saw African Americans as inferior. There were laws such as the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that kept them segregated from White Americans and many African Americans still struggled to find jobs and positions of power. Almost immediately after the Civil War, Southern states who were fighting against the black’s rights, passed laws that would still restrict blacks. These laws were called Black Codes and although African Americans were emancipated, they still were faced with heavy oppression and many restrictions to their rights. Another set of laws that affected the
