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Post-Civil War Incarceration

Reconstruction failed and Jim Crow was born; Jim Crow laws manifested themselves as a war on African Americans.  Segregating all public places like schools, parks, and pools made it easy to arrest African Americans for being in the wrong place. Redlining in neighborhoods kept African Americans in poor neighborhoods and made it difficult to buy property.  The community was suffering, and then the War on Drugs began.

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