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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 10:50 AM
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Bill would purge racist language from state laws
http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/Today/2005021733

Delegate Sharon Spencer remembers the time she tried to treat her best friend to a milkshake at the local soda fountain for her seventh birthday. She instead got an early lesson about segregation.

Though allowed to buy her friend the shake, her friend had to drink it outside because she was black.

The experience helped prompt Spencer, 57, to co-sponsor a bill Thursday to remove from state law what few passages remain of the “Jim Crow” laws that aimed to separate the races.
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