The civil war
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[...] There was an official segregation (racial separation). Black people were discriminated against. They didn't have the right to vote, to gather in a meeting, to express their opinion or to study in college. In daily life, Black people were frightened because of the constant intimidation caused by the Jim Crows laws. have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood."Martin Luther King, Jr. [...]
[...] Before the 1860ies The South (The deep south) = plantations, slaves, very rich plantation owners (rural) The Southerners wanted to secede, they felt superior to the others. The North (urban) = industries, hard working people, governement 1863 : The emancipation of all the black slaves. The south was destroyed. They were lots of poor whites in the south. In the literature of the South there is still nostalgia about the good old days : civil rights. There was an enormous gap between the North and the South. [...]
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