Segregation in a sentence

Back when segregation academies opened, some white leaders proudly declared their goal of preserving segregation.

He pleaded guilty to gross negligence because he did not revoke Bester’s transfer to the Broadway segregation unit, from which Bester escaped; and dereliction of duty for failing to visit the segregation unit after being informed of Bester’s transferral.

Heralding itself as the “The World’s Greatest Weekly,” the Defender spoke out against segregation of the armed forces in the early 1940s and actively challenged segregation in the South during the civil rights era.

By 1968 all forms of segregation had been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, and by 1970 support for formal legal segregation had dissolved.

Though there were no specific laws creating racial segregation (as in South Africa and the South of the United States at the time) and barring blacks from establishments frequented by whites, there was de facto segregation in most areas.

While legal racial segregation in daily life is not practiced, self-segregation does exist.

African American students should be proud of the Greensboro sit-in in 1960, which then dismantled segregation in Greensboro, North Carolina.

After collection, proper segregation takes place to determine which can be recycled and which shall go to sanitary landfill.

Among some housing advocates, both critics and supporters of the community preference policy contend that it’s unlikely that it is a major driver of segregation in the city, though some admit it reinforces the segregated status quo.

And segregation through redlining — a common practice of the past — continues to haunt these communities nationwide.

A similar phenomenon took place when Jim Crow laws legalized racial segregation following the Civil War.

Asked about those complaints, Dones disagreed that the segregation presented problems for the women.

At a press conference Wednesday, Kesarkar also said the BMC is putting in place a process to soon start segregation of waste — extraction of pollutants from the garbage — at its two landfills in Deonar and Kanjurmarg.

Barksdale as the leader of the Disciples represented the stories of migration and the impact that segregation had on Black Chicagoans.

Biden said Davis should have received the honor years ago, describing segregation in the U.S. when he returned home and questioning the delay in awarding him the medal.

Drew also established Britain’s first blood bank and in the United States he fought against the segregation of blood based on race.

During the program Dr. Jubilee shares her experiences with segregation during the Jim Crow Era alongside reciting her original poetry.

George Wallace takes a stand for segregation in the schoolhouse door—briefly; then he scuttles away.

He insisted that the current Palestinian predicament “amounts juridically to a situation of apartheid” — the Afrikaner term for the enforced legal segregation of South Africa’s Black majority by a white minority regime for most of the twentieth century.

In 1874, California’s Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was legal, and in 1979, voters passed a proposition blocking desegregation efforts tied to busing.