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Black people, who had suffered the indignity of chains and slavery for hundreds of years, who had been denied any possible inheritance, who had been denied education and who had seen families and loved ones sold down the river, were now told that they were equal citizens with everyone else. But the economic reality of life in America was little changed for the freed men and women. And the indignities and injustices of life on the bottom rung of the ladder have survived long past emancipation.
I was one of those southern whites active in the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. I had teeth knocked out and I had ammonia thrown in my eyes. I was threatened and I was jailed and I got in a gunfight with some Ku Klux Klansmen. But I say equality of law became a fact for black Southerners.
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