Well After Civil War, Color Line Still Divides

Jesse Jackson, Chicago ST
One hundred and fifty years ago today, the Civil War began, the savage struggle over whether America would be a land of freedom or of slavery. Americans suffered more loss of life than in World War I and World War II combined. Slavery was ended, but racial inequity was not. In the South, denial that slavery was the root cause of the secession and war began immediately after the Confederacy’s surrender.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/04/12/well_after_civil_war_color_line_still_divides_253643.html

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