As a European, the American Segregation seems so surreal to me. They fought a civil war to abolish slavery, in WW2 they fought an enemy doing even worse things in the name of race, their constitution says everyone is equal. Then why did they keep opressing the blacks for so long?
by /u/Pashahlis in /r/AskHistorians
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