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Traveling while Black: Morgan City home welcomed travelers in Jim Crow days
(Editor’s note: Wednesday will be observed as Juneteenth, the anniversary of the day in 1865 when enslaved people in the westernmost state of Texas learned that they were free. To mark the day, Greig Chauvin of Morgan City submitted this story about one of the challenges faced by African Americans in the segregated South.)
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