In this book the author, Jerrold Packard tells us about how it was to live a hundred years after the end of the Civil War. He says, twenty-five percent of all Americans lived with segregation legalized. This system of legalized segregation was called Jim Crow. Together with its strictly applied church laws of racial custom, these rules oversaw every little move that was made for each person of color. Of course if you have laws you must have reproductions for when someone breaks the law. The reason to have such strict laws was to keep order. According to the creator of these laws, the African Americans that were just emancipated needed some sort of way to keep them “under control” and as close to their former slave status. Using these laws that
