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Jim Crow laws
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South Carolina’s Sundown Towns: The Hidden Segregation That Shaped a State
The concept of Sundown Towns wasn’t unique to South Carolina, but the Palmetto State’s geography—its isolated rural areas, dense forests, and sprawling...
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How President Truman’s Executive Order 9981 Ended Segregation—and Reshaped America Forever
Yet the order’s passage was far from inevitable. Truman, a Missouri Democrat with a pragmatic streak, had initially resisted calls for sweeping racial reforms...