How Did Jim Crow Laws Affect The Treatment Of African Americans?

After the slaves were freed the production of the South dropped because they were part of the economic production system. The production of the landowners decreased because the labors who worked on their crops were the African Americans but were freed. However, here is where the Jim Crow laws came in by charging African American for minor crimes and imprisoning them to continue their slave work legally but in jail. What Jim Crows laws of segregation where that the African American were put in a second-class status. Signs of where white and colored were put out throughout town legally letting the color people where they were allowed to step in. Many people violated the segregation laws leading to the point of colored being called criminals or predators.
The colored knew that being arrested by the Americans was dangerous because of the treatment towards them, but they still insisted and committed law violations to get arrested. The whites saw the colored people dangerous when it came to jobs or worse mating with Americans and mixing. Segregation was to keep the colored people in their place to the point of not being able to live even in the same town as Americans. Africans had specific areas where they could leave. When voting, American knew that colored people would have no educations so the laws for voting where to those that could not read or write could not vote this prevented colored from voting. This was a strategic way to prevent colored people from voting and once against making them inferior. However, segregation and inequalities laws forced violence and lead to the civil rights movement that was adopted in