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Racism in the Not So Distant Past

Strom Thurmond was a Democrat? George Bush was a strong opposer of black voting rights? Times

have certainly changed. Key events in US history; have led to moderate desegregation that encompasses

our nation today. One must thoroughly investigate dates, and legislation between 1948 and 1980 to fully

comprehend the nature of racism today. When investigating periods of African American history one must

not only look at the superficial data, but undermining factors, which may have gone unnoticed by the

public eye. These events are equally important to the legislation, which passed that will forever change the

history of the United States.

1948 will be inscribed in time as the year that changed presidential politics, as we know it. Blacks

had recently returned from WWII, were they fought to preserve human rights. When blacks fought over

seas they came to the realization that they did not have equal rights in the country,......

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