segregation
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Derenoncourt has found that Black Americans who migrated north to growing cities in the 20th century achieved economic gains—but their descendants experienced increasing school segregation and incarceration rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
One state he found surprising was Alabama, a place many in the UK associate with racial segregation and the struggle for civil rights as well as its pioneering space exploration programmes.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
He was a high school senior in 1954 when Warren, the new chief justice, spoke for a unanimous court to strike down racial segregation in the case of Brown vs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Most notably, they permit sex segregation in school athletics by sometimes requiring the creation of boys’ teams and girls’ teams.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
Located in Northern California, Tule Lake was a high-security segregation center with almost nineteen thousand inmates.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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The social segregations of “District 9” become filters when we leave the theater that allow us to see our own world in sharper focus.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2016
Of the segregations of educational values Chapter Twenty: Intellectual and Practical Studies Summary.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by John Dewey
Above these beds there are layers of dolerite, 15 to 20 ft. thick, with nodular segregations and abundant cavities which are often lined with zeolites.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
Such segregations, however important and useful for systematic distinctions, are evidently only of secondary value, when considering the real nature of the units themselves.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
Through Mendelian combinations and segregations it would by cross-breeding be spread and gradually introduced into more and more strains of the general population.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer
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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