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Nation’s Cities Almost Free of Segregation, Study Finds

More than 40 years after the federal government enacted fair-housing legislation and the Great Migration of blacks from the South began to ebb, residential segregation in metropolitan America has been significantly curtailed, according to a study released Monday.

 

Ku Klux Klan man dies four years after jailing for 1964 murders

Ku Klux Klan man dies four years after jailing for 1964 murders

James Ford Seale, who in 1964 committed one of the most gruesome acts of the segregationist South when he tied blocks to the feet of two black teenagers and threw them still breathing into the Mississippi river, has died – for the second time.

 

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