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096 The Origins of Racial Segregation in the United States

Published: Aug. 23, 2016, 5 a.m.

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Ever wonder how the United States\\u2019 problem with race developed and why early American reformers didn\\u2019t find a way to fix it during the earliest days of the republic?

Today, Nicholas Guyatt, author of Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation, leads us on an exploration of how and why the idea of separate but equal developed in the early United States.

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