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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/forgotten-history-government-segregated-united-states/ by Richard Rothstein 14/11/17 ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | [https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/forgotten-history-government-segregated-united-states/ by Richard Rothstein 14/11/17 ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | ||
Racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the United States and bears responsibility for our most serious social and economic problems — it corrupts our criminal justice system, exacerbates economic inequality, and produces large academic gaps between white and African American schoolchildren. | Racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the United States and bears responsibility for our most serious social and economic problems — it corrupts our criminal justice system, exacerbates economic inequality, and produces large academic gaps between white and African American schoolchildren. | ||
=====Racial Segregation in the Church===== | |||
[https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-racial-segregation-in-church/ by Equal Justice Initiative 01/01/16] | |||
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and slavery often were justified by religious leaders who argued that slave owners were performing a noble Christian duty by converting and enslaving Africans, who were inferior to whites in the eyes of the church. After the Civil War, white churches supported racial hierarchy and segregation, forcing Black people to form their own churches. | |||
