Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. It is during the first half of the 20th century that the legal basis of discrimination at state and local levels in the South was dismantled.
2. The public is hostile toward affirmative action.
3. Slavery emerged and persisted because of the South's need for inexpensive labor.
4. Slavery was confined only to the agricultural sector of the southern economy.
5. The period between 1914 and 1920 marks the first large-scale migration of African Americans out of the South.
1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE
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