Jim Crow's northern history proves that white supremacy is not unique to the southern US

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• Jim Crow, the system of laws that advanced segregation and black disenfranchisement, began in the North — not the South, as most Americans believe.
• Long before the Civil War, northern states had legal codes that promoted racial segregation and black disenfranchisement.
• As recently as 1964, a majority of New Yorkers thought the civil rights movement had gone too far, a New York Times poll from 1964 reveals.

A southern city has now become synonymous with the ongoing scourge of racism in the United States.

A year ago, white supremacists rallied to "Unite the Right" in Charlottesville, protesting the removal of a Confederate statute.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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