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Minority Groups In American History
In American history there are many different cases where minority groups have been harassed and attacked violently. There was a time where mobs of people could lynch or beat up a black person just because they looked at you funny, didn’t follow the black codes, or just because they didn’t like you and most of the time the people got away and the black people just took it. Violence was everywhere in America at this time. “Jim Crow didn’t discriminate between “good” Negroes and “bad” Negroes; every black person was suspect, every community open to assault. No one was safe.” (Boyle, Kevin. Arc of Justice: a Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age. Picador, 2011.) No one favored one black person over another, if you were a black
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