African American Discrimination Era

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African Americans didn't always have the law on their side during history.
Discrimination was considered constitutional in the old times and it was normal and completely legal. People thought is was normal like water coming out of a spigot. So even though the people thought it was fair and acting like it's normal many African Americans were thinking the law was against them. Many white people were against segregation; some whites helped colored people out throughout all the chaos. Then even africans Americans started to gain a voice, and gain equal rights as white people they still treated them as 2nd class people and some accepted them having equal rights.

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