The Jim Crow Laws had a major contribution for making people believe that racism was a good idea. After the end of the Civil War and slavery white people did not want any of the black people to feel like they were first class citizens. White people felt extremely threatened and made it their mission to make black people feel like they were worth nothing. The Jim Crow laws disguised how racial they were and created a slogan called “separate but equal”. Therefore there was a school for black children and a school for white children, there was a library for black people and a library for white people, there were public washrooms for black people and public washrooms for white people and so on. The facilities that were built for black people were
