Willie Lynch and Jim Crow are two ideals that played a major role in the structure and foundation of the men most single mothers of color will encounter. Each identity has played an active economical and societal role in the exploitation and manipulation of the family structures pertaining to people of color. Willie Lynch was the single mother's hidden figure who was incorporated into the family structure during slavery and much thereafter. As the mothers separated from the involuntary servitude known as slavery the labors placed upon them became skill sets that they would use to navigate this new form of freedom which in all actuality constricted their ability to be free. Specifically, from the Willie Lynch situation that systematically removed the man from the household and the breaking of the men, women, and children so that they will fall in accordance with the underlying agenda of Willie. Keeping numerous individuals who would be submissive and dependent upon the master of their resources and their desires. This also included keeping people alive with the minimal so that the gains in the economy could all be collected by the master of the program. Jim Crow was a bias perception of how black slaves acted and thought, white men portrayed slaves in blackface as clumsy dimwitted savage beings. This iteration of a fictional character created to entertain and degrade black men was used as the governmental evolution of the Willie Lynch Persona which became the foundation of segregation racist and capitalism. Jim Crow personified the reduction of the American experience to African Americans and that venture did not leave one aspect un-affected socio-economically.