Shooting of black teen highlights racial divide in Missouri town


Demonstrators Aaron Little, Gianni Cook and Troy Jones hold signs while protesting in Clayton, Missouri August 12, 2014. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

FERGUSON Mo (Reuters) - The fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, on Saturday, and subsequent violent protests, highlight a stubborn racial divide in a St Louis suburb that has struggled to build healthy relations between blacks and whites.

From the 1970s, Ferguson, pop. 21,000, changed from being overwhelmingly white to predominantly black as whites left the town and its surrounding areas, seeking to avoid racial integration of public schools.

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