Segregation And Discrimination Of Black People In The United States

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Black people of the United States were socially limited by several factors, though mainly by segregation and discrimination. At the time, the court stated as long as the services provided to white and black people were of equal quality, segregation was legal. However, the ideology of the equal quality was far from the quality in actuality. Some black folk were not very concerned with the segregation laws. They focused their attention on nourishing the black community than unifying with the white public.
Political limitations also affected black people. The Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws maintained the low cost of farm labour, and kept black people inferior to white people. They also restrained basic rights from black people, such as being

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