Sentences with phrase «sanctioned racial segregation»
Student courage at lunch counter sit - ins and on Freedom Rides led the way to end to legally - sanctioned racial segregation in America, and they were in the forefront of the movement that forced a President from office and, eventually, an end to the war in Vietnam.
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Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to [retard] the educational and mental development of negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racial [ly] integrated school system.