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law of segregation

noun as in Mendel's law

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Parks is often portrayed as a quiet seamstress bullied by the cruel laws of segregation.

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Instead, he said, "we came back to a very rigid set of racial lines that were being drawn. The laws of segregation were being intensified."

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The great obstacle to be overcome in carrying out the law of segregation consists in the fact that the Hawaiians do not appreciate and refuse to be convinced that leprosy is a communicable disease.

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The laws of segregation began to fall away; the voting rolls of blacks in the South began to fill.

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This perfectly simple principle is known as the law of segregation, or the law of the purity of the germ cells.

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