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Jim Crow laws.(Skills Master 1)
02/21/2005: 749 words, approx. 3 pages From the 1880s to the 1960s, several Southern states enacted unfair laws that limited the legal rights of black Americans, These legal acts were known as Jim Crow laws, named after a minstrel character (musical performer who portrayed blacks negatively). Read the samples of...
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American drug laws: the new Jim Crow.
03/22/2000: 9,748 words, approx. 33 pages THE 1999 EDWARD C. SOBOTA LECTURE In 1942, over 120,000 Americans were stripped of their businesses and their homes and incarcerated for the duration of World War II.(1) They committed no offense. They were convicted of no crime. They were suspected, arrested, had...
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N.C. Senate apologizes for slavery
4/6/2007: 456 words, approx. 2 pages The North Carolina Senate apologized Thursday for the Legislature's role in promoting slavery and Jim Crow laws that denied basic human rights to the state's black citizens.Following the lead of lawmakers in neighboring Virginia, the Senate unanimously backed a resolution acknowledging its "profound contrition for...
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N.C. House passes slavery apology
4/11/2007: 343 words, approx. 1 pages The North Carolina House formally apologized Wednesday "for the injustice, cruelty and brutality of slavery," becoming the latest state to offer its regret.The House passed the apology resolution 117-0, along with a resolution that previously passed in the Senate apologizing for the state's Jim Crow...



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Jim Crow Era
2,219 words, approx. 7 pages
 Discusses the prejudice and racial strife of the Jim Crow Era in American history.
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Jim Crow Laws
601 words, approx. 2 pages
 How "Jim Crow" laws that kept blacks separated and unequal from whites arose in post-Civil War America despite the addition of three constitutional amendments designed to protect African-Americans. Plus, the origin of the term "Jim Crow."


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