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History: Long black ordeal
Sometimes it's said that they "made a way with no way." American blacks originally were dragged to this continent in chains. Their descendants suffered two centuries of cruel slavery -- then another century of segregation and poverty, even lynching -- before winning legal equality in the mighty civil rights movement after World War II.
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History: Long black ordeal
Sometimes it's said that they "made a way with no way." American blacks originally were dragged to this continent in chains. Their descendants suffered two centuries of cruel slavery -- then another century of segregation and poverty, even lynching -- before winning legal equality in the mighty civil rights movement after World War II.
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