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While also instituting Jim Crow in the North. My grandparents moved from the segregated South to the segregated North. I was surprised to see a few years back in the NY Times Magazine something my mother told me about: in her childhood, the beach at Asbury Park was segregated. Yes, the ocean had a whites only sign on it.

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Several years ago I attended a great conference at the Smithsonian on "Slavery: History and Memory," which included recordings of slaves that had been made during the WPA era. Clearly, the numbers of former slaves were few so there was a push to get their stories out there.

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