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…Opinion ■ 111110 Equal Rights from page 27 days, post offices with separate lines, stores that have separate entrances and funeral homes that forbid men and women to sit together. At one government meeting, accord- ing to the study, women were told to move to the back of the room, and sidewalks once segregated only for special religious occasions are now segregated all the time. These findings corroborate what NCJW has found and fought aga...…
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