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segregated

adjective as in divided into racial or ethnic groups

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Ferguson decision, the Supreme Court legalized “separate but equal” facilities that were segregated by race.

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She and the other interned women were categorised and segregated.

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The civil rights leader was born in 1941 in segregated Greenville, S.C., and rose to prominence alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s.

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He was allowed just one hour a day for exercise, by himself in the wing's segregated courtyard.

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In the 1960s, the median black girl living in a segregated black neighborhood received a name that was only twice as common among black girls as among white girls.

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