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[-] btsax@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago

One of the major reasons the Civil Rights Acts were passed is because moderates saw how heinous and violent southern police and governments were to black Americans living there. The thing that galvanized the country to finally end Jim Crow and start repairing the damage done from slavery and the failure of Reconstruction was to get cameras on it and show "normal" people how bad it really was.

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