Sentences with phrase «jure discrimination»

-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.

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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.
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