"Battle Royal" The Denial of Social Equality

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"Social?", "What" they yelled. "?equality-" The crowd of people suddenly got quite and questioned what the narrator said and was he trying to get smart with them, "you weren't being smart, were you, boy?" At the sound of equality uproar occurred, because equality was unheard of...
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The white men did not want the blacks to be equal to them. Instead they made fools of them and humiliated them by putting on embarrassing acts such as the battle Royal for there personal entertainment or even the electric rug that further made them look ridiculous while they laughed on...
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