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AMERICA'S APARTHEID:
JIM CROW LAWS

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EPISODE ONE
STORY CHAPTER LINKS
1. STORY PREFACE
2. FREEDOM DAY
3. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION LIMITATIONS
4. SLAVERY IS WRONG
5. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
6. THE SOUTH REJOINS THE UNION
7. BAD DECISIONS MAKE BAD LAW
8. WHAT WERE JIM CROW LAWS?
9. NOW WHAT?
10. THE INFAMOUS LAWS
11. A SHAMEFUL LEGACY
12. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES

PREFACE

We cannot say
that a law which authorizes
or even requires
the separation
of the two races
in public conveyances
is unreasonable.

United States Supreme Court
May 18, 1896
Plessy vs. Ferguson

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Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.