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Jim Crow Laws
On the 20th of January, 2009, Barack Obama became America's 44th President. A man of African-American heritage, seeking to unify a divided country, he noted in his inaugural address:
The President's father may not have been served in a D.C. restaurant, sixty years ago, because he was a black man. And in America, at that time, laws discriminated against people of color. This is a story about how that system - called "Jim Crow" - developed.
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