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When Lexie Webster integrated an Indianapolis neighborhood in 1963, fences went up. She spent her 96 years breaking down ...
Rosemary Pope, a longtime community leader in southeastern San Diego, was born in 1945 and raised in Macon, Ga., when public ...
Policing becomes war. When you see the words “Jim Crow,” your mind may jump to photos of racially segregated water fountains. But Jim Crow was far more than that.
It was here that I encountered segregated water fountains and bathrooms which were separate but definitely not equal.
The old segregation laws required that blacks attend separate schools and use separate water fountains and theater entrances.
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Smith grew up in the era of Jim Crow, when federal and state laws enforced segregation of "whites and colored races" in all areas of life, including using the same water fountains, going to the ...