segregation
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Following World War II, Randolph co-founded the League for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Against Military Segregation, which encouraged men to refuse to register or serve in the armed forces.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025
He was put into the prison’s Administrative Segregation Unit — a single-person cell, like he wanted — before being transferred to Pleasant Valley.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2023
The case concerned 27 American-born men of Japanese ancestry, interned nearby at the Tule Lake Segregation Center.
From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022
Sarah Jane Shoenfeld is a public historian and co-founder of Mapping Segregation in Washington DC.
From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2021
This establishment, officially called the Segregation and Isolation Building, constitutes a prison inside a prison.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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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