-LSB-...] Undoing that 100 years of de facto and de
jure discrimination is going to take a lot of time and a lot of work.»
Once civil rights statutes banned such de
jure discrimination, some fire departments came up with ways to maintain the discriminatory status quo, such as requiring applicants to pass standardized tests before being hired, tests that African American and Latino applicants tended to fail.
Not exact matches
Once civil rights statutes banned such de
jure — i.e., legally enforced —
discrimination, some fire departments came up with ways to maintain the discriminatory status quo, such as requiring applicants to pass standardized tests before being hired, tests that African American and Latino applicants tended to fail.