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Notes

1 Jim Crow laws were a system of state and local laws that legalized racial segregation in the American South from the post civil war era until 1968.

2 See Zinn (1999, 171–193) for research about the falseness of this claim.

3 Lyrics from “America the Beautiful”, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.