Why Were Jim Crow Laws Absurd?

Jim Crow laws were a way to separate the white and the colored from being in the same place at the same time. This was a law basically because bob didn’t get along well and usually would end up bad. For example, the law of whites and colored races not being buried close to each other burial grounds (National Historic Site 10). To add to my last example, white and colored children had to be reached at different schools(National Historic Site 24). This rule was absurd because white children school had better adv advantages and it took many years for a colored person to be in a white school. Then when a colored kid would end up in the white schools, parents were upset and started protests and it sometimes got violent. Lastly, the promotions of equality. This law was no publication between white and colored so whites published stories about white and vice versa (Edmonds 18). This law was very absurd because in my opinion, I don’t think the states really brought attention to anything colored people did unless it was very extravagant (like Ruby Bridges). Other than that, I don’t see any light shining on colored people's achievement, to add to this must have really saddening. Jim Crow laws were fully against civil rights, there were violations in educational rights, social freedoms, and voting rights. The story of James Jones is a perfect example, he was a veteran of World War II and he shared his stories of the his demeaning treatment because of his skin tone (PBS “The Rise and Fall of Jim …show more content…
His story is a perfect example because of how the Jim Crow laws were written it belittled the colored and made everyone think it's okay to belittle someone of a different race, the people should have treated him with respect because he helped