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http://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ugly-laws/(permalink)

Author: snopescom

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2017-01-11

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Prohibition Street Corner (1953 film)Middle Ages Industrialisation James II of England Omaha people Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 Eugenics Cleveland Christopher Columbus World War I American Civil War San Francisco Oregon George W. Bush Chicago City United States Congress President of the United States Ralph Darling Textile manufacturing Chicago City Council Claude Shannon Civil Rights Act of 1964 Urban planning Omaha, Nebraska

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During the 19th and 20th centuries, some U.S. cities enacted so-called "ugly laws" banning people deemed "diseased, maimed, mutilated or in any way deformed so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object or improper person" from public spaces.

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