I'm Angela O'Dell and you are listening to real cool history for kids, a podcast show featuring history stories told from a biblical worldview. Welcome to episode 17 of Real Cool History for Kids. In our last episode I told you about the horrible time

period when the African slave trade existed. We learned about how the United States

had fought the war that, well, almost, divided our country

permanently and it many times pitted brother against brother.

I also told you about how after the war the country was still angry and bitter against each other. The North wanted the South to pay for the

awful damage that the war had caused and many white people of the

South did not want to live with the now free African American people among them

as their neighbors. It was a truly terrible and uneasy time in our country.

Before we go on, I want to tell you the meaning of some big words that I will be using in this

episode. The first word is segregation.

This word comes from the word segregate. To segregate in this case means to separate people into groups

according to their race or gender. You will also hear the word desegregation, which means the undoing of segregation, so it is the opposite of segregate. To desegregate means to stop the segregation that is happening

and allow people to be together in one group, not separated by race or gender.

The next word is discrimination.

This word means unjust treatment based on your gender or race or any other part of who you are.

These words are similar in meaning, but they do not mean exactly the same thing.

If you don't completely understand what I have said about these words,

please pause this podcast episode for a moment and talk to someone who can help you with it.

It's important that you do understand before you move on.

So please, if you don't understand it, pause it right here

and then come back to me when you're ready, okay? After the Civil War, many white people wanted to live separate lives from their black neighbors.

The two groups did not trust each other because of the events of the past.

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