W.E.B. Du Bois was born in Massachusetts in 1868. ... Du Bois briefly taught at a college in Ohio before he became the director of a major study on the social conditions of blacks in Philadelphia. He concluded from his research that white discrimination was the main reason that kept African Americans from good-paying jobs.
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Proprietary colonies were governed by a lord proprietor. The authority and power exerted by the lord proprietor came from a royal charter.
Maryland was one of the proprietary colonies of the British Empire between 1632 and 1776. Maryland´s first lord proprietor was Cecil Calvert,second Baron Baltimore.
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".