Effects Of Segregation On African Americans

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The African Americans has to realize that segregation was still in progress and so they had to be mind full of the places they went and the things they said. They weren't accepted in certain places or they had to use the back way to get into certain places. Overall they weren't excepted and had to watch their backs where ever they

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