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  2. Black Codes (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact ...

  3. Slave codes - Wikipedia

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    The United States experienced divisions between slave states in the South and free states in the North. At the start of the American Civil War in 1861, there were 34 states in the United States, 15 of which were slave states, all of which had slave codes. The 19 free states did not have slave codes, although they still had laws regarding ...

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

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    This is a list of examples of Jim Crow laws, which were state, territorial, and local laws in the United States enacted between 1877 and 1965. Jim Crow laws existed throughout the United States and originated from the Black Codes that were passed from 1865 to 1866 and from before the American Civil War.

  5. History of unfree labor in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans ' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt .

  6. List of landmark African-American legislation - Wikipedia

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    Henderson v. United States (1950) - abolished segregation in dining cars. Brown v. Board of Education - composed of four cases arising from states and a related federal case arising from the District of Columbia overturning segregation in schools and the separate-but-equal doctrine. Davis v.

  7. Black employees are code switching at work because and many ...

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    Around 35% of Black workers report code switching in the office—defined by changing language, tone of voice, or physical appearance to fit a dominant work culture—compared to just 12% of their ...

  8. Some Black workers say if they stopped code switching at work ...

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    Good morning! Code switching is a well known phenomenon in U.S. workplaces. Usually a burden shouldered by workers of color, the term refers to the practice of changing your language, tone of ...

  9. Convict leasing - Wikipedia

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    Convict leasing in the United States was widespread in the South during the Reconstruction Period (1865–1877) after the end of the Civil War, when many Southern legislatures were ruled by majority coalitions of African Americans and Radical Republicans, [8] [9] and Union generals acted as military governors. Farmers and businessmen needed to ...