The Thirteenth Amendment to the American Constitution put an end to slavery in the US. However, African Americans' plight wasn't over for all that!
Watch a video on the period of racial segregation that followed the period of slavery:
(the documentary is shown after an advertising message)
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/5959-civil-rights-segregation-in-america-video.htm
And another video on the return of segregation in US schools today some fifty years after the Civil Rights Movement had managed to defeat segregation in the 1950s and 1960s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxSsxwKZxCI
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