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Segregation was a government policy.
by alexeisadeski3 13y ago
Segregation was a government policy.
- djur 13y agoNot in its entirety. Private discrimination continued well after the Jim Crow laws were overturned.
- pdonis 13y agoIn addition to djur's correct observation, there is also the observation that government policies supporting segregation came after people's private desire to segregate, not before; in fact, the government policies came into being in large measure because of people's private desire to segregate.