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Jim Crow's Feminine Side: Black Women's Reconstruction & Their Subjugation Today Jim Crow's Feminine Side 2 Jim Crow's Feminine Side: Black Women's Reconstruction & Their Subjugation Today During the early years of New World Slavery, a national acceptance of racist and immoral behavior was spreading. The development of this grossly unjust ideology was a precursor to the extremely violent post Civil War attacks experienced by newly freed ex-slaves. A relationship between postbellum violence and Jim Crow reconstruction policies showed that hatred and racial inequality would be seemingly forever tolerated in the United States so long as dominant society was not forced to commerce with racial issues in an up-close and personal manner. Today, the Jim Crow reconstruction legacy of moral apathy still favors allowing oppression and cultural inequality to exist under the guise of "equal" opportunity. The only equal opportunity that African-Americans had was chromosomal, as in connection with birth. Either they were born into a society which viewed black males as dangerous, lazy, and listless, or they were subjected to the slings and arrows which all women endure but ever so much worse for the black woman of that time.