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[[Image:SaengerColoredEntrance.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The "colored entrance" of the [[Saenger Theatre]] circa 1938]]
'''Segregation''' was the institutional subjugation of blacks following the [[Civil War]] and subsequent passage of the [[Wikipedia:Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Thirteenth]] and [[Wikipedia:Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourteenth Amendments]] that constitutionally abolished [[slavery]] and secured the rights of former slaves. Like other areas in the South, Pensacola was engaged in policies of legal segregation through '''Jim Crow laws''' and other means.
