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It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, shrieking to its own kind, and privilege and property heard and recognized the voice of its own.
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reconstruction
jim-crow
privilege
property
race
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W.E.B. Du Bois |
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"They were liberating Harrisonville, showing the hypocrites and phonies and $$$-squirrelers and chokeragged Yesmen some puffed-up balls. They were widening the mental horizons of a town more narrow-minded than its streets; they were missionaries laboring amon their bloodkin: montheytheistic theocentric cousins and uncles who swore allegiance to Uncle Sam, Jim Crow, Oral Roberts, and Dale Carnegie; they were waging their impudent revolution against people they'd cowedly called "sir" all their teenage lives."
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oral-roberts
harrisonville
jim-crow
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Joe Eszterhas |
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In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.
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jim-crow
jim-crow-laws
kleptocracy
mississippi-history
segregation
black-history
us-history
mississippi
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |