segregation
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One state he found surprising was Alabama, a place many in the UK associate with racial segregation and the struggle for civil rights as well as its pioneering space exploration programmes.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Robinson’s courage—along with his hitting, fielding and baserunning—helped set the stage for the end of legally sanctioned segregation in American society and the beginning of integration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
He was a high school senior in 1954 when Warren, the new chief justice, spoke for a unanimous court to strike down racial segregation in the case of Brown vs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Most notably, they permit sex segregation in school athletics by sometimes requiring the creation of boys’ teams and girls’ teams.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
Its leaders believed that white South Africans could be persuaded, on moral and humanitarian grounds, to end segregation.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
The social segregations of “District 9” become filters when we leave the theater that allow us to see our own world in sharper focus.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2016
Near the ores there are likely to be granitic rocks, which, like the ores, seem to be segregations from the norite magma.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
Pratt as basic segregations from an igneous magma.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
Above these beds there are layers of dolerite, 15 to 20 ft. thick, with nodular segregations and abundant cavities which are often lined with zeolites.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
Our quasi-reasoning upon this subject applies to all segregations so far considered.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
Vocabulary lists containing segregation
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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