The reason why these laws were passed that denied a slaves' many rights is because the laws made it more difficult for enslaved people to escape.
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Prior to the Civil Rights movement, there was general inequality which was socially or lawfully enacted. Prior to this movement was laws that denied equality regarding Blacks given the same rights as Whites.
They were denied civil rights as a result of changes in State laws and constitutions.
Local and state laws that were passed to take away African-American rights, in the South, were referred to as Jim Crow laws. There were dozens of these laws passed in the 1950s and 1960s.
There were an incredibly large number of Anti-Semitic Laws that were passed in Germany. The most famous of these were the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 which deprived Jews of many of their civil rights.
By passing the black codes which were laws passed by the southerners to control the freedom of all the freedmen