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Life for African-Americans Post-Slavery by geraldine.guerin is a document available to read on EtoBox.

After slavery, African Americans faced legalized racial segregation and discrimination in the Southern United States known as Jim Crow laws. These laws enforced separation of public spaces by race and were enforced between the 1880s and 1960s. Some examples of Jim Crow laws included prohibiting white nurses from treating black patients, requiring separate prison facilities for black and white convicts, and banning black barbers from serving white women. The laws aimed to uphold white supremacy and prevent s

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geraldine.guerin

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