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'Negro Going in Colored Entrance of Movie House, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi,' October 1939.
1939年时,黑人与白人进入电影院甚至必须走不同的入口,坐在不同的区域

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「普莱西对弗格森」 (Plessy v. Ferguson)
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非裔美籍议员班哲明.阿内特 (Benjamin W. Arnett) 描述他在1886年于俄亥俄州搭乘火车的一次遭隔离的经验:「我在这个自由州待了20个小时,没有任何东西可以吃;那并不是因为我没有钱,而是因为我是黑人。其他肤色较淡的乘客都有早餐与晚餐可以吃。在旅行的时候,我们被安排在只有黑人乘客的车厢里,也被拒绝购买卧铺的位置。」这项不平等的政策后来是怎么被改变的呢?

African American legislator Benjamin W. Arnett described a train ride in segregated Ohio in 1886: "I have traveled in this free country for 20 hours without anything to eat; not because I had no money to pay for it, but because I was colored. Other passengers of a lighter hue had breakfast, dinner and supper. In traveling we are thrown in [cars for blacks only], denied the privilege of buying a berth in the sleeping coach." How did this inequality by law finally change?

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