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African-American History

African-Americans Came Out of the Civil War and Ran into Jim Crow

Historian Lonnie G. Bunch III identifies 1877 as the year when all the gains of the Civil War, for Black people, began to be erased. As Jim Crow took hold, African-Americans found their constitutional freedoms curtailed.

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