Ms. LO: Especially with the whites and the blacks, I never seen so much tension and I do see it a lot here.

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He witnessed his mother being mistreated by whites in the South, but he never saw her give up.

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America's political traditions had never gained a solid foothold in the state, where the illiteracy and poverty of many whites and the disenfranchisement of blacks deterred true democracy.

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