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  2. List of Jim Crow law examples by state - Wikipedia

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    Segregation of public facilities was barred in 1884, and the earlier miscegenation and school segregation laws were overturned in 1887. In 1953, the state enacted a law requiring that race be considered in adoption decisions which was supplanted in 1996 by Ohio's implementation of the federal multiethnic placement act (MEPA), by an ...

  3. Education segregation in Indiana - Wikipedia

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    In the 2010 United States Census, 84.4% of Indiana residents reported being white, compared with 73.8% for the nation as a whole. [7]Indiana, while not having much in the way of slaves and in-fact outlawing slavery in the state's first constitution with Article VIII, Section 1 expressly banning slavery or any introduction of slavery into the law of the state. [8]

  4. Racial segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Indiana also required school segregation by state law. [97] During the 1940s, NAACP lawsuits quickly depleted segregation from the Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey southern areas. [ 97 ] In 1949, Indiana officially repealed its school segregation law as well. [ 97 ]

  5. Laws and loopholes still perpetuate school segregation across ...

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    The 74 reports on loopholes, laws and lack of protections allowing Black, brown, low-income students to be excluded from America's most coveted schools. Laws and loopholes still perpetuate school ...

  6. Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia

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    The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. [1]

  7. ‘The Color of Law’ unveiled truths that Black Americans have ...

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    It is the picture of perception vs. reality and how de jure segregation along with separate and unequal community standards, helped to shape a negative black identity in the eyes of white America.

  8. Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Anti-miscegenation laws discouraging interracial marriage between White Americans and non-whites affected South Asian immigrants as early as the 17th century. [citation needed] For example, a Eurasian daughter born to an Indian father and Irish mother in Maryland in 1680 was classified as a "mulatto" and sold into slavery. [11]

  9. From reading to happy hour, here are the Indiana laws that go ...

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    Education was a major theme this year, but bills on alcohol sales and adult content are also making it into law. From reading to happy hour, here are the Indiana laws that go into effect July 1 ...