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Examples Of Discrimination In The 60's

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The blacks were discriminated terribly against by things called Jim Crow Laws, these laws kept blacks as close to slaves as they could get without actually being slaves. There was discrimination in places like the in the society. There were segregated bathrooms, schools, churches, there were all sorts of establishments that blacks were not aloud to go into because purely based on the color of their skin. There was a lot of racism in the 60’s between blacks and whites even though the law was separate but equal. The law was separate but equal, but honestly the blacks were not seen as equals to whites, they were seen as lesser than. Even though the laws had made blacks separate but equal the attitudes of the whites toward the blacks never changed.
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