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African Americans In The 1950's
Life for the African Americans in the 1950’s was very harsh. Luckily, the cruel Jim Crow laws that segregated white people from black people are non-existent today in 2016. According to Jim Crow laws, black people we're not allowed to interfere with white people in activities such as sports, schooling, and even transportation. In the 1950’s, if you wanted to attend a school, you would have to go to a black school. Black schools were often not as nice as white schools because they were very poor. Black athletes often only played with other black players. The Negro Leagues was a result of those laws. Very few athletes had the luxury of playing on white teams, even when they played on these teams they would get harassed by spectators, often getting
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