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[https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1865-1917/essays/segregation.htm by TeacherServe] | [https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1865-1917/essays/segregation.htm by TeacherServe] | ||
Racial segregation was a system derived from the efforts of white Americans to keep African Americans in a subordinate status by denying them equal access to public facilities and ensuring that blacks lived apart from whites. During the era of slavery, most African Americans resided in the South, mainly in rural areas. | Racial segregation was a system derived from the efforts of white Americans to keep African Americans in a subordinate status by denying them equal access to public facilities and ensuring that blacks lived apart from whites. During the era of slavery, most African Americans resided in the South, mainly in rural areas. | ||
=====What was Jim Crow===== | |||
[https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/what.htm by JIM CROW MUSEUM] | |||
Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. It was a way of life. | |||
