Sentences with phrase «enforce segregation»

Two - tenths of one percentage point marks the difference between legally enforced segregation in Mississippi 40 years ago, and socially and economically enforced segregation in New York today.

The government - enforced segregation of days gone by has been replaced by voluntary segregation.

For all this, Wolters does not hanker after Jim Crow: he considers legally enforced segregation to have been wrong, and — shades of Abraham Lincoln here?

Brown dismantled state - enforced segregation with the expectation that doing so would lead to integrated schools.

Gary Orfield, the director of the UCLA advocacy group, argues this means we're in a new era of «enforced segregation....

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Discriminatory laws enforcing racial segregation have been declared unconstitutional and abolished, while the dream of Martin Luther King (that every individual be judged by the content of his character and not the color of his skin) has been integrated into the American dream itself in a way that only Lincoln's Gettysburg image (a government of, by, and for the people) had been previously.

«Only a metropolitan government can overcome existing municipal and school district borderlines that - intentionally or not - enforce race and class segregation in housing, schools, and job and business opportunities.

Just days after the Trump administration announced it would delay enforcing a federal housing rule requiring communities to address racial segregation, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson appeared in Chicago to host a...

To ensure that some backups will endure extreme events, says Weightman, a strict process of «diversity and segregation» should be enforced.

During Jim Crow — when state and local laws enforced racial segregation — Prince Edward County operated two high schools: the well - funded Farmville High School for white children and the severely underfunded Robert Russa Moton High School for black children.

This bundle contains 11 ready - to - use Jim Crow Laws Worksheets that are perfect for students who want to learn more about Jim Crow which were state and locals laws used to enforce racial segregation in the southern states of the country [Southern United States].

Enter Generation X, one generation removed from real segregation as Chris Stewart defines as «the state - enforced separation of races and the assignment of minorities into inferior conditions.»

(d) Discrimination or segregation by an establishment is supported by State action within the meaning of this title if such discrimination or segregation (1) is carried on under color of any law, statute, ordinance, or regulation; or (2) is carried on under color of any custom or usage required or enforced by officials of the State or political subdivision thereof; or (3) is required by action of the State or political subdivision thereof.

Apartheid («separateness», pronounced «apar - tate» in Afrikaans, although many English speakers say «apar - tide») was a government - enforced system of racial segregation instituted in South Africa (map) in 1948.

Their conceptual, interpretive and realistic works respond to and are inspired by the tenor and tone of the marches, protests and campaigns to defeat discrimination, outlaw segregation, and enforce voting rights.

The licensing enforces certain operational requirements for the exchanges, including high standards for cybersecurity, the segregation of customer accounts and the verification of customer identities.

In the decades leading up to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, racial segregation was a de jure practice, meaning the separation was enforced by law.