The jim crow laws created a govern and segregated society in the south by forcing segregation and disenfranchisement laws against African Americans after the Reconstruction era. An example of this is the case plessy v. Ferguson was upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal. Although black americans have typically been the klan's primary target it also attacked jews, immigrants, gays, and lesbians and, until recently catharines. The Ku Klux Klan, with its long history of violence, is the most in famous and oldest of america hate groups. Plessy V. Ferguson, case in which the U.S. supreme court, on May 18, 1896 by a seven-to-one majority (one justice did not participate), advanced
