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'''Segregation''' was the institutional subjugation of blacks following the [[Civil War]] and subsequent passage of the [[Wikipedia:Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Thirteenth]] and [[Wikipedia:Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourteenth Amendments]] that constitutionally abolished [[slavery]] and secured the rights of former slaves. Like other areas in the South, Pensacola was engaged in policies of legal segregation through '''Jim Crow laws''' and other means. | '''Segregation''' was the institutional subjugation of blacks following the [[Civil War]] and subsequent passage of the [[Wikipedia:Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Thirteenth]] and [[Wikipedia:Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourteenth Amendments]] that constitutionally abolished [[slavery]] and secured the rights of former slaves. Like other areas in the South, Pensacola was engaged in policies of legal segregation through '''Jim Crow laws''' and other means. | ||