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= Jim Crow Laws = Jim Crow laws were segregation laws in the South that discriminated against blacks. One of the main goal of these laws were for voting restrictions. Some states wouldn't let you vote if your couldn't pass a literacy test to test reading. This effected the blacks because usually slaves were prohibited from learning how to read and write. Poll tax was another way of preventing the blacks to vote. This tax makes you pay a yearly fee in order to vote, this ended up limiting the freed blacks and white sharecroppers. There were whites that ended up failing the poll tax, and the literacy test, so the grandfather clause was created. This stated that if you failed the other tests, you would still be eligible to vote if your past ancestors vote, like your father or grandfather. During the same time more racial segregation laws were passed, seperating blacks from whites. For example: there were white bathrooms and white bathrooms; as well as white and black water fountain. There is an argument still going on today that the Jim Crow laws are still in effect some ways. In 2012, Michelle Alexander wrote a book //The New Jim Crow// and claims that the US's War on Drugs which mainly effects African Americans has created new segregation. By treating black criminals unfairly and harsher then white criminals shows that the justice system is ruling in a way of racial control. The Jim Crow laws created a huge set back for equality in America, it is still shown today. "Jim Crow and Nuremberg Laws." //Fern Schumer Chapman //. Web. 5 Nov. 2015. "Jim Crow Laws." //Wikipedia //. Wikimedia Foundation. Web. 5 Nov. 2015.