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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
In the early 1920s Jim crow laws enforcing racial segregation and discrimination Was firmly entrenched in the south. lynchings once uncommon in the west were growing in oklahoma They served as a form of public terror one night in 1911 an african-american mother and her young teenage son were both lynched. In 1919 the great black word or web Du Bois wrote in an editorial we return We return from fighting we return fighting make war for democracyWe saved it in france and by the great jahova. We will save it in the united states of america or know the reason why. But less than a decade later resistance to this message was growing.
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