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Plessy v. Ferguson

  By the end of 1877 southern states were replacing Reconstruction governments for more conservative ones. Improvements in the African American community were reversed as states began to pass their own laws discriminating...

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Southern Manifesto

What is the Southern Manifesto? In 1956 politicians from southern states issued the Declaration of...

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Jim Crow Laws

What was Jim Crow? Jim Crow was a set of laws sponsored by Southern States that required the...

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