segregation

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The Shakers, with their signature spare style, have had an outsize impact on material culture, considering their numbers—a peak estimated at 6,000 members in the mid-19th century—and segregation from the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Chavez seemed like the right man at the right moment as Mexican Americans rose up like never before to battle discrimination and segregation.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

And now, just shy of his 40th birthday, Coogler is an Oscar winner, for best original screenplay for horror period piece "Sinners," an unlikely mash-up of racial segregation, Southern blues and vampire-fueled gore.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

The brain stops prioritizing these “expressways” and shifts back to segregation to lock in the pathways our brains use most.

From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026

On May 17, 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren read the Court’s unanimous decision in a collection of school segregation cases brought by the NAACP.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson