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In the book Black Boy, we see many black people in the south
dealing with many hardships. One

of the most prominent problems for blacks seemed to be the "Jim
Crow" laws. These laws withheld blacks

from society, breaking them apart from whites and making it very
hard for them to live an even close to

normal life. Black people couldn't express their own ideas at all.
They had to call all white men "sirs" and

all white women "ma'am". They couldn't act the slightest bit
superior to whites. It was almost impossible

for black people to make a decent living in the south, and they also
had to take the abuse dealt to them by

he whites without even attempting ant resistance. Blacks in the
south also had to deal with the separation

aspects of the "Jim crow" laws. They had to sit in the back of the
buses, they had to use separate water

fountains and bathrooms, they were looked upon almost like they
had some sort of disease. These are just a

few of......

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