Sentences with phrase «helped end segregation»

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Sussman is a 1978 Honors Graduate of Harvard Law School and has been one of the Hudson Valley's most prominent civil rights and trial lawyers since the 1980's when, as lead counsel for the Yonkers Branch of the NAACP, he helped end racial segregation in the City of Yonkers public schools.

Charter schools didn't create segregation but the charter school movement isn't helping to end it either.

While the creation of further protections helped to end overt discrimination in the housing sector, de facto (by fact) segregation continued to be a roadblock for disenfranchised Americans.