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  2. Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950–1970 - Wikipedia

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    The national coverage of the Civil Rights Movement transformed the United States by showing Americans the violence and segregation of African Americans' journey for their civil rights. Local television news in Virginia in the 1950s was more balanced than the print media .

  3. Racial segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A black man goes into the "colored" entrance of a movie theater in Belzoni, Mississippi, 1939. [27] The legitimacy of laws requiring segregation of black people was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537.

  4. One-drop rule - Wikipedia

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    It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of African ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") [1] [2] is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms). It is an example of hypodescent , the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status ...

  5. The Black Hole (1979 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Black Hole is a 1979 American science fiction film directed by Gary Nelson and produced by Walt Disney Productions.The film stars Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins and Ernest Borgnine, while the voices of the main robot characters are provided by Roddy McDowall and Slim Pickens (both uncredited).

  6. Racial segregation - Wikipedia

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    Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. Segregation can involve the spatial separation of the races, and mandatory use of different institutions, such as schools and hospitals by people of different races.

  7. The Color of Law - Wikipedia

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    In The New York Times Book Review for the work, written by David Oshinsky in June 2017, the book is called "a powerful and disturbing history of residential segregation in America". [2] Oshinsky went on to write that "[o]ne of the great strengths of Rothstein's account is the sheer weight of evidence he marshals."

  8. Talk about a throwback -- Wait until you see what the cast of ...

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    "Holes" of course told the story of Shia's character Stanley who was wrongly convicted of a crime and is forced to a desert detention camp where they dig, you guessed it, holes. For a quick ...

  9. The Black Hole (2006 film) - Wikipedia

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    A creature exits the hole and seeks out energy. As the creature absorbs energy, the black hole grows in size and destroys a large part of St. Louis. Before the creature can be hit with a nuclear bomb, it is lured back to the black hole and the black hole collapses on itself.