segregation
Example Sentences
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However, it is not full football-style segregation and visiting fans are still free to select seats in other parts of the ground to sit among home supporters.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
Its strongest leaders spoke not only about the sins of segregation but also about the responsibilities of freedom, understanding that justice without moral renewal would leave communities politically visible but internally broken.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 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
It is not discrimination, but rather, continuing to address the persisting harms of segregation, in schools and in communities.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026
But because we dared to challenge the Southern tradition of segregation, this school became, instead, a furnace that consumed our youth and forged us into reluctant warriors.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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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