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There were imposed jail terms and even fines for railroad employees who failed to enforce those rules. There was also other states that imposed jail or fines to anyone who attempted to sit in cars that their race excluded them from.

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African Americans and whites were not allowed to be in any public facilities together. Access to schools, parks, jobs, housing, buses, and many other public facilities were very limited to them.

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"Blacks who tried to vote were threatened, beaten, and killed. Their families were also harmed. Sometimes their homes were burned down. Often, they lost their jobs or were thrown off their farms."

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Though, many segregationist saw that there was no wrong in creating the 'separate but equal" act, they failed to realize how serious and harmful the laws that were in place were. Many people, both black and white, lost their lives trying to be considered as equal in a prejudice, unfair and unruly society.

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"Certain states passed laws requiring separation on public conveyances such as streetcars and railroads. Though they differed in detail, most of those statutes required equal accommodations for black passengers" but many of those accommodations of course were not up to equal standards.

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"Denying black men the right to vote through legal maneuvering and violence was the first step in taking away their civil rights." Taking away the right to vote from African Americans caused a huge frenzy in elections. There was always unfair elections because another majority of the community (Af. Am.) could not read or write let alone vote. That caused for many of the prejudice officials to stay in office.

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Any African American who decided to interfere with those laws and enter into facilities/areas they were not allowed into faced serious dangers. “Blacks who violated these laws could be physically beaten by whites without reprisal; lynchings occurred with startling frequency“ when more and more blacks violated those laws as well.

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Jim Crow Laws were put in place to prevent contact between blacks and whites establishing that whites were above i.e. more superior than blacks. By doing this, many rights of African Americans were stripped from them. Though, these laws were not as harmful as slavery, there were severe repercussions in place.