Abstract
Sadly, racial segregation has a long history in the United States. The separation between the blacks and the whites is deeply-rooted in American history because of its constitution, which established in 1787 that the weight of a black man was three-fifths of a white man. It also marked slavery as a constitutional fact. Concretely, racial segregation touched colored people in various fields as education, transports, employement and access to culture. It was based on the fact that black and white people didn't have the same rights. With the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, who defended the idea of the abolition of slavery, eleven states of the American Union declared themselves members of an independent nation. A year later, the Secession war began. The states of North America were against slavery whereas the South ones were pro-slavery.
