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  2. List of Jim Crow law examples by state - Wikipedia

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    The state of Tennessee enacted 20 Jim Crow laws between 1866 and 1955, including six requiring school segregation, four which outlawed miscegenation, three which segregated railroads, two requiring segregation for public accommodations, and one which mandated segregation on streetcars.

  3. Racial segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Libraries in several states continued their segregation practices even after the "separate but equal" doctrine was overruled by the Civil Rights Act. In 1964 E. J. Josey, the first African American member of ALA, put forth a resolution preventing ALA officers and staff members to attend segregated state chapter meetings. [84]

  4. List of majority-Black counties in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This list of majority-Black counties in the United States covers the counties and county-equivalents in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of United States Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the population in each county that is Black or African American. The data source for the list is the 2020 United States Census. [1]

  5. Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia

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    All the states of the "South" or with the longest histories of slavery (in red) segregated schools by law statewide. Numerous boycotts and demonstrations against segregation had occurred throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

  6. Category : History of racial segregation in the United States

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    School segregation in the United States; Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project; Segregated prom; Shelley House (St. Louis, Missouri) Slavery during the American Civil War; Southern Manifesto; St James Episcopal Church (Baltimore, Maryland) Stanley Plan; Sundown town; List of sundown towns in the United States; Ossian Sweet

  7. List of historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    Most HBCU's are located in the Southern United States, where state laws generally required educational segregation until the 1950s and 1960s. Alabama has the highest number of HBCUs, followed by North Carolina, and then Georgia. The list of closed colleges includes many that, because of state laws, were racially segregated.

  8. List of U.S. states and territories by African-American ...

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    The compromise counted three-fifths of each state's slave population toward that state's total population for the purpose of apportioning the U.S. House of Representatives. Even though slaves were denied voting rights, this gave Southern states more U.S. representatives and more presidential electoral votes than if slaves had not been counted.

  9. Residential segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    "The United States Supreme Court defines steering as a 'practice by which real estate brokers and agents preserve and encourage patterns of racial segregation in available housing by steering members of racial and ethnic groups to buildings occupied primarily by members of such racial and ethnic groups and away from buildings and neighborhoods ...