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How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito In The Jim Crow Era

South Asian scholar Chandra Dharma Sena Gooneratne wore a turban to avoid anti-black discrimination in the American South. (Courtesy of South Asian American Digital Archive)
South Asian scholar Chandra Dharma Sena Gooneratne wore a turban to avoid anti-black discrimination in the American South. (Courtesy of South Asian American Digital Archive)

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