In the story, you can see when the Jim Crow laws were put in place. In the PBS article, "Jim Crow Laws," it says that Jim Crow laws are segregation and disenfranchisement laws that represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three-quarters of century starting from 1890. . These laws affected the laws that were established affected most of the black community, school systems, sanitation, and many other things. “In legal theory, blacks received “separate but equal” treatment under the law.” This is what the government thought was “equality”, but sadly this was certainly not the case. “In reality, public facilities for blacks were almost always inferior to those for whites when they existed” (Jim Crow Laws). Unfortunately, racism is still present today, but not as often as it has been over the past four decades