Racial inequality and civil rights
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The precarious position of African-Americans, who faced severe discrimination, sharecropping poverty and the systematic erosion of their civil rights through Jim Crow laws and violence.
Ethnic tensions escalated, particularly affecting African-Americans who faced systemic segregation and violence, prompting the Great Migration to Northern cities.
Topics that use Racial inequality and civil rights
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