Jim Crow Laws were designed to isolate African Americans and place them in an inferior position compared to white people. The Jim Crow Laws and customs stated that it was constitutional to give blacks separate but equal treatment. The problem was the equal part was seldom identical to the white’s privileges and advantages. The Jim Crow Laws stated that African Americans were to sit in the back of the bus, they had to ride in colored only train cars and they could not eat in the same restaurants as whites. They had to use separate restrooms, drinking fountains, benches etc. White and Black children could not attend the same school. This went on for years. Eventually, African Americans came forward and protested the separation of races. In 1892
