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Not surprisingly, municipal transit companies in the South fought against the passage of laws requiring racially segregated seating in streetcars. After losing politically in the legislatures, some municipal transit companies then took the issue into the courts, where they lost again. Then, after the laws went into effect legally, many Southern municipal transit companies simply did nothing to enforce racially segregated seating. In some places, passengers continued for years to sit wherever they felt like sitting.
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Thomas Sowell
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