... ways to indirectly control how they lived. Socially, it was incredibly difficult for African Americans to fight for their rights and become equal citizens of the United States. "Jim Crow Laws" or racial segregation was soon to play an important roll in history. In 1883 the Supreme Court ruled on seven Civil Rights Cases that involved discrimination against blacks. Despite having the Fourteenth Amendment ... shall constitute one-third and more of the ignorance and crime of the South, or one-third of its intelligence and progress" (42). Here, he's proving that friendly relations with the ...

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