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Following the US Civil War and the end of slavery in the United States, many people believed that Afro - Americans were undesirable people. They believed that white people were far superior to Black people. With those thoughts, segregation was practiced in many places in the South. Through segregation, they hoped to separate the races, and to a large degree control the Afro-American population.

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