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In the beginning, we were beaten and sometimes killed for learning to read as slaves. After Lincoln freed us efforts were made in newly formed free black communities to organize schools. Then in 1892, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality. This is the full story. The Jay King Show