[Special Edition] United States: the origins of segregation

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Winston-Salem, North Carolina 1957: A racist inscription on the campus of a high school intended for the only black student in the establishment. AFP AFP

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.

“Washington d'Ici”, an original podcast from French-speaking public radio stations in Washington.

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