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Eintou #6

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago. Photo: Getty Images

During segregation

Separate rarely was equal.

Black people were considered second-class citizens.

Jim Crow was de facto and de jure

Denial of African-American citizen’s human rights.

White folks’ inferiority complex

Is lethal!

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