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Jim Crow laws
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  • Then industrialization began, the Jim Crow laws were passed, and the races were again segregated.†  (source)
  • I think all she saw were Jim Crow laws, some...booklet I'd picked up at the library but...I can't say for sure.†  (source)
  • When I tell him that Hilly found the Jim Crow laws in my satchel, his chin drops and I can see that I've confirmed something Hilly already told him about me—something he had the naive trust not to believe.†  (source)
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I was feeling the very thing that the state of Mississippi had spent millions of dollars to make sure that I would never feel; I was becoming aware of the thing that the Jim Crow laws had been drafted and passed to keep out of my consciousness; I was acting on impulses that southern senators in the nation's capital had striven to keep out of Negro life; I was beginning to dream the dreams that the state had said were wrong, that the schools had said were taboo.†  (source)
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