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6o4 An American Dilemma
segregation and discrimination than in the South: there is no segregation
on streetcars, trains, and so on, and above all, there is no rigid ceremonial
governing the Negro-white relations and no laws holding the Negro down.
The fact that there are no laws or defined rules of etiquette is sometimes
said to cause friction and bitterness because some whites in the North will
want Negroes to keep away from them, and Negroes cannot tell which
whites these are. But the absence of segregating laws also keeps the
system from being so relatively locked as in the South. It allows Negroes
to be ambitious. And since Negroes in the North have the vote and a
reasonable amount of justice in court, and since they can go to good schools
and are, in fact, forced to get at least an elementary education, they can
struggle for fuller social equality with some hope.
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