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When Reconstruction ended in 1877, 90% of African Americans lived in the South. As white southerners regained political control in state and local governments, they passed new laws restricting African Americans. The new laws segregated Black and white people and condemned African Americans to an inferior and second-class citizenship. In response, African Americans created institutions that sustained their communities. | When Reconstruction ended in 1877, 90% of African Americans lived in the South. As white southerners regained political control in state and local governments, they passed new laws restricting African Americans. The new laws segregated Black and white people and condemned African Americans to an inferior and second-class citizenship. In response, African Americans created institutions that sustained their communities. | ||
====A history of Segregation In The United States===== | |||
[https://www.irp.wisc.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Focus-34-4a.pdf by Focus] | |||
While civil rights efforts have worked to abolish segregation in | |||
education and in public spaces from buses to lunch counters to | |||
swimming pools, some 50 years after the Civil Rights Movement | |||
residential segregation remains in virtually every metropolitan | |||
area in the United States. | |||
