Sentences with phrase «enforcing racial segregation»

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.

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].

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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...

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.

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.