[Special Edition] United States: the origins of segregation
Audio 10:14
By: Francophone public radios
The death of George Floyd suddenly amplified the mobilization against racial inequalities in the United States.
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These inequalities and a form of segregation remain in 2020; you just have to walk through a large American city to realize this. Yet on paper, blacks and whites have been equal since the passage of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution in 1868. Jordan Davis and Eric Guevara-Frey trace the history of the United States to the abolition of the slavery to break down the mechanism of segregation.
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