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5. Jim Crow
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 05:24 PM
Dec 6

I was raised in a small town about 30 miles southwest of Houston. There was a public pool on the main street but blacks weren't allowed to swim. When the Civil Rights act of 1964 was passed the city decided to remove the pool rather than have nonwhites swim in it.

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