"They had an apartheid up to 60 years ago."For many of us outside the US there's a dichotomy here. The North won the bitterly contested Civil War and freed the slaves but never really afforded them true freedoms. Why?
The perception from the outside is that conscience over slavery per se drove the North to war and not concern for the fact that slaves were actually people who were suffering enslavement and or unfairly treated.
Edit: Given the Civil War why was the Civil Rights Movement 100 years later necessary?
