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Segregation Had to Be Invented
Semuels, Alana http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/segregation-invented/517158/
Publisher: The Atlantic
Date Written: 17/02/2017
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Article
During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.
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Growing up here in the 1940s and 1950s, Sevone Rhynes experienced segregation every day. He couldn't visit the public library near his house, but instead had to travel to the "colored" library in the historically black area of Brooklyn, a neighborhood that used to be in the center of Charlotte. He attended a school for black children, where he received second-hand books, and where the school day was half the length of that of white schools, because the black school had too many children and not enough funds. Sixty years later, he says, Charlotte is still a segregated city. "People who are white want as little to do with black people as they can get away with," he told me.
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