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Jim Crowe
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segregation
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Plessy V Ferguson
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Homer A Plessy bought a first class ticket but was arrested for riding in the white car (e was 1/8th black) - 1896 separate but equal
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Washington County, TX
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1886 democrats were trying to maintain control by stealing ballot boxes but armed black men tried to resist and killed a white man- then 3 white men disguised themselves snuck into the jail and kidnapped and lynched the 3 black men- were aquitted
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Wilmington Riot
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Alex Manly the editor of Daily Record (a local black paper) suggested that white men were resposible for sexual exploitation of black women and that the white community was angry at black men for having relations with white women- riot white men killed at least 12 black men and many black residents left
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