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1) Interesting/ surprising Info Seperate waiting rooms, Seperated areas (everywhere) for different races. Housing Law- black and white people cannot live in the same building/ area. Promotion of equality law: it is illegal to write/ publish any materials that promote equality. Textbook law: a textbook used by a black school cannot be used by a white school (and vice versa). Maurice Lucas: professional basketball player, exposed the fact that black votes were not being tallied. Riot in east street, loius missouri: started because black workers were replacing white workers. Jaills were segregated.they're being punished, there is not point in being punished seperately. Mental hospitals segregated. Intermariage means interracial children ahich was frowned upon. Rosewood Florida riot: somebody said they were raped 9it wasn't true) by an African American, so the whites went around burning black dwellings. Kirby Money stood up for the rights of post-war african american soldiers. Riots in knoxville started because they thought a black man murdered a white woman, he got the death penalty and 26 white men were arrested during riots. Curfews were different for blacks and whites. Omaha riots false rape accusation led to gruesome murder of innocent man. white and black men couldnt play pool together. Blind white and black people had tor be treated in seperate facillities. 25-40 blacks murder in Atlanta riots and not recorded.

2) Connection to modern or to your research Even in today's society, mixed kids are still (in some cases) rejected, since they are not black or white enough for some people. I find this digusting and sad, but it is true. in more than one case, riots started because of false accusations of black men raping white women. Fake rape led to murder and or riots in many places.

3) Questions Why couldn't whites realize that they were really the same? if making blacks be with whites is punishment, why cant they share a jail (when they're being punished)? Why would a woman lie about rape just because they hated a black man? Why did so many women lie about something as serious and scary as rape? and what about the blkack women actually being raped by white men? Why would black men segregate against black women when they were fighting for equal rights?