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How Did African Americans Treated Disrespectful

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African Americans have been treated unfairly for many years since slavery. Although slavery had ended in the U.S., whites were still being disrespectful and racist toward the African Americans. They still treated them like they were lower than all the whites. Just because of the color of their skin, African Americans were being mistreated. They did all they could possibly do to get equality for blacks, but they did them nonviolently. They never even once used violence. They did events like boycotts, sit-ins, school integration, and marches. I was very shocked about the story of Emmett Till. He was just an average 14-year-old African American boy who had whistled at a white lady, not knowing the customs of the South. A few white men kidnapped

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