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She stood at the gate, waiting; behind her the swamp, in front of her Colored Town, beyond it, all Maxwell. Tall and slim and white in the dusk, the girl stood there, hands on the picket gate.

— Lillian Smith Strange Fruit (1944)

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Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

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