segregation
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“You think of segregation as history, but it’s something they lived through,” her classmate Shiloh Durrett, 19, said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
Local organizers understood the strategic importance of finding a sympathetic plaintiff to challenge bus segregation in the Deep South.
From Salon • May 20, 2026
Jet fuel is a complex product because of its transportation, segregation and storage requirements, and the dire consequences of a potential airplane-engine malfunction.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 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
The Redeemers who overthrew Reconstruction were inclined to retain such segregation practices as had already emerged, but they displayed no apparent disposition to expand or universalize the system.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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