Jim vs. Apartheid Differences amongst people has been in existence for a very long time. The time of segregation of black people in America is proof of this differences. During this time black people have been regarded as second class civilans. The laws that were created during this time had the purpose of restricting black people from achieve anything in life and these laws were called Jim Crow Laws. Those laws were mainly used in the southern and border states of the United States. But segregation did not only happen in the US, it has occurred in countries all over the world, places like South Africa. In South Africa, there was a system of legislation, called apartheid. This system, like the Jim Crow Laws, made racial segregation possible in South Africa, the majority of black people in the country was force to live in poor areas that were different from the minority of whites in the country. These two policies are similar in many ways but have differences as well. To effectively compare and contrast these two systems I will use their access to education, the right to vote, and the effects they had on blacks in both countries. Both policies affected the access to education for black people. There was a separation in which black children and white children had their education in different schools that were strictly for their race. In both countries the black schools did not have the proper funding to supply their students with the right materials while the white schools were giving decent amount of funds. The only difference is that in the US segregation was mainly practice in the southern and border countries. In the southern countries, the white schools, despite having more funds than the black school, had financial problems as well. In both countries some black schools were shut down due to the fact they did not live up to the standards