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Segregation was an useful tool in preserving the economic and social dominance of the white southerners. With segregation the African Americans were being discriminated against and kept in socially inferior position thus enabling the whites to get better paying jobs and generally better positions thus continuing the cycle of economical dominance of the white southerners.
In 1890, Mary E. Lease led the Farmers' Alliances to D. revolt against high mortgage rates.
