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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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Sit-In Movement

  Many African Americans inspired by the , the unjust murder of and the courage of had been...

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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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