Discrimination against African Americans and women were first institutionalized in ______.

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Discrimination against African Americans and women were first institutionalized in the Constitution of the United States, specifically with the Three-Fifths Compromise and the denial of voting rights and property ownership to women. Plessy v. Ferguson legalized segregation, but it was not the first instance of institutionalized discrimination. The Civil Rights Act and Brown v. Board of Education were efforts to dismantle institutionalized discrimination, not the origin of it.

Discrimination Against African Americans and Women Were First Institutionalized in ______