African Americans were enslaved in this country for centuries; our nation’s enormous wealth was built on their backs. When the awful practice finally ended, officially, in 1863, it lingered in the form of Jim Crow oppression for another century. While other oppressed groups — the Irish, the Italians — faced poverty and hatred, they could escape through hard work, education and assimilation, a route denied blacks, whose families had been shattered and whose very skin made them targets for endless persecution.
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