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The Jim Crow Laws made segregation legal. These laws were criticized by Mark Twain’s novel, Huck Finn, as the American System in the Civil War era. The monologue by Pap criticizes the segregation of non-white "native" Americans. During the time, laws were enacted to make segregation legal, even in defiance of the fourteenth amendment. The worst used were the Jim Crow Laws as well as the Black Codes. The Black Codes and restricted the civil rights and the civil liberties of African Americans" (wikipedia) The Jim Crow Laws were established in "the Southern and Border States…" (wikipedia). The whites and blacks were so separated they may have well of been in different cities. There were separate seats, toilets, water fountains, and living establishments for blacks, which were of much lower quality. With the Black Codes, the "Freedmen" lived in social chains, as opposed to chains of iron. Without help and the vote, blacks were stuck in societies’ new slavery. Thankfully, "state-sponsored school segregation…" (wikipedia) was disestablished in 1954 by the Supreme Court with the case of Brown v. Board of Education. Afterwards, Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes, and other segregation laws were "repealed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964…" (wikipedia) These laws, though terrible, were necessary for growth in America to teach that color and ethnicity need not decide on a person’s treatment.

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