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No free Negro, or mulatto, not residing in this state at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall come, reside, or be within this State, or hold any real estate.Though no longer enforced, the state left those words in our constitution for 36 years after the Civil Rights Act was signed. And those legislators who allowed that continued to work on education policy right on up to the modern age. Imagine the message that sent to a Black student reading the constitution for civics class.
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