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The situation shown in this 1950 photograph is a direct result of

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"Base your answer to question 14 on the photograph below and on your knowledge of social studies.

Source: Juan Williams, Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, Viking Penguin

(Photograph of black man drinking from a water fountain that is labeled colored)

The situation shown in this 1950 photograph is a direct result of the

(1) Great Migration (2) application of grandfather clauses (3) passage of Jim Crow laws (4) Montgomery bus boycott

Answer:

(3) passage of Jim Crow laws

Step-by-step explanation:

Jim Crow's laws were segregationist laws implemented in the southern United States that prohibited black people from having access to any type of object than white people. As a result, black people could not use the same bathroom as white people, the same sink, the same chairs and not even the same public drinking fountains. Everything was separated between "allowed for black people" and "allowed for white people", an example of which can be seen in the figure below, where a black man drinks water from a public drinking fountain entitled "colored", indicating that that drinking fountain should be used only by black people.

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