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The Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws
The Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws
After the United States Civil War, state governments that had been part of the Confederacy tried to limit the voting rights of Black citizens and prevent contact between Black and white citizens in public places.
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5 - 8
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Social Studies, Civics, U.S. History
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Colored Water Fountain
Here, an African-American man drinks from a water fountain marked "colored" at a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1939.
Photograph by Bettmann

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July 8, 2022
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