The economy is improving: Nationally, unemployment is about 5 percent<span>, down from </span>10 percent<span> in 2009. But for black Americans, the unemployment rate is much higher—for them, the economy is still a disaster. Unemployment among blacks was 9.5 percent during the </span>third quarter of 2015<span> compared to only 4.5 percent for whites. While the discrepancy in unemployment has been volatile, the current gap is actually </span>slightly larger<span> than the one that existed 15 years ago or in the years directly preceding the recession.</span>
I’m not sure if this is correct or not
<span>B.) the freedom to practice the religion of your choice </span>
There were Jim Crow laws and literacy tests, so I'd say it's <span>B. Some states passed laws that kept freed slaves from exercising their right to vote.
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