Here are five maps that show which states had the right idea, and which ones had the very, very wrong one.
Slavery laws before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Women's suffrage laws before passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Segregation laws before Brown vs Board Of Education in 1954
Source: morganmaps.com
