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  • African Americans lived in racially segregated ghettos isolated by railroad tracks within small towns or in "colored sections" in the country.†   (source)
  • 'I mean, it's the same kind of nonsense as werewolf segregation, isn't it?†   (source)
  • It's segregation all over again.†   (source)
  • Black students had enrolled in segregated schools such as Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the University of Alabama.†   (source)
  • On page four, I read: Boy blinded over segregated bathroom, suspects questioned.†   (source)
  • Salvagings are always segregated.†   (source)
  • He saw no reason to keep flowers separated from tomatoes and herbs segregated in a corner.†   (source)
  • This was 1951 in Baltimore, segregation was law, and it was understood that black people didn't question white people's professional judgment.†   (source)
  • At the conclusion of the two-week trial, Woodall announced that he'd narrowed the field down to two finalists: Cathy O'Dowd, twenty-six, a white journalism instructor with limited mountaineering experience whose father is the director of Anglo American, the largest company in South Africa; and Deshun Deysel, twenty-five, a black physical-education teacher with no previous climbing experience whatsoever who'd grown up in a segregated township.†   (source)
  • The rules of segregation don't apply.†   (source)
  • Our people were stretching out to knock down the fences of segregation.†   (source)
  • The segregated schools came as a complete surprise to Mommy, who had not even considered that problem, and the southern vibe of the city-anything south of Canal Street in Manhattan was the South to us-brought back unpleasant memories for Mommy.†   (source)
  • Memphis could make you wonder why anyone ever bothered to create laws segregating the races.†   (source)
  • The food was politely segregated, ever since the episode a few years ago when one of Stewart's friends, a Buddhist vegan, accidentally mistook a crab puff for a wheatfree biscuit.†   (source)
  • Once again Holmes's method of segregating tasks and firing workers was proving successful.†   (source)
  • He had scrimped and saved enough money to build a home for elderly Jews in Hilversum—for the elderly of all faiths, in fact, for Willem was against any system of segregation.†   (source)
  • On the outskirts of the arena, right beside the entrance and carefully segregated from the men, sat the women who worked for Capricorn.†   (source)
  • The principal knew Moon as a good teacher and bona fide musician who had played trombone in Cleveland's lauded all-black Navy band, an association that came into being because of segregation, so he lured Moon from another public school.†   (source)
  • Carthage had become a bit (a very tiny bit) less Caucasian while I was away, but it was still so severely segregated that the only people of color I saw in my daily routine tended to be occupational roamers: delivery men, medics, postal workers.†   (source)
  • But this neatness, the neatness of Dante, was in the orderly sectioning and segregating of all levels of evil and decay.†   (source)
  • In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.†   (source)
  • My Sainted Aunt is talking like Mr. Grady O'Hanlon, who left his job to devote his full time to the preservation of segregation.†   (source)
  • This establishment, officially called the Segregation and Isolation Building, constitutes a prison inside a prison.†   (source)
  • If Lewis was willing to segregate his work life from his home life, why couldn't Sterling College do the same?†   (source)
  • It had a steel divider running along the center, segregating the white prisoners from the Africans.†   (source)
  • The patio is sex segregated-the men sit to one side, smoking their cigars and tinkling their rum drinks.†   (source)
  • Thomas Schelling, "Dynamic Models of Segregation," journal of Mathematical Sociology{1971), vol. i. pp— 143-186.†   (source)
  • "We don't segregate by color here.†   (source)
  • Florida was still pretty segregated, so the cultural mix was unique and mostly peaceful—blacks, whites, Hispanics, and some Seminoles.†   (source)
  • In Plessy r. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court gave the go-ahead to full-scale racial segregation.†   (source)
  • They segregated visible history.†   (source)
  • Bill Gates recalls once being invited to speak in Saudi Arabia and finding himself facing a segregated audience.†   (source)
  • Segregation being rushed.†   (source)
  • The kids did what came naturally: segregated themselves based on race.†   (source)
  • He segregated those with fever from those without.†   (source)
  • Back then, this town was still segregated, and most of the Negroes lived out in a place called Watts Landing.†   (source)
  • It was almost perfectly segregated—blacks on one side, whites on the other.†   (source)
  • After 9/11, the Arab and Muslim communities segregated themselves because of the level of suspicion directed at them from others.†   (source)
  • And why should I restrict myself, segregate myself?†   (source)
  • To do that, Sharon must be segregated from the other women.†   (source)
  • Wallace had lost his first run for governor because he claimed he was "out-niggered," and vowed never to lose another race because he seemed soft on segregation.†   (source)
  • The increasing segregation of the two ethnicities, and the ever-growing fear between them, which made violence, especially preemptive violence, a rational strategy for self-defense.†   (source)
  • Words that will heal a nation divided by McCarthyism, terrified of the cold war, and still struggling with racial segregation and discrimination.†   (source)
  • Bryan might be pleased with the study she'd done on the cars lined up at the park's entrance, but she was growing weary of their unspoken agreement of segregation.†   (source)
  • Then industrialization began, the Jim Crow laws were passed, and the races were again segregated.†   (source)
  • Theirs was the only city in New Jersey with sex-segregated public high schools, Jefferson for boys, Battin for girls.†   (source)
  • The gym classes at Stony Brook were normally segregated, boys from girls.†   (source)
  • Had the Michigan sergeant lived to witness the North's retreat from Reconstruction in the 1870s and the South's disfranchisement and formalized segregation of blacks in the 1890s, he might have wondered whether the abolition of slavery had revolutionized everything after all.†   (source)
  • It was really a segregated beer joint, which you didn't see very often.†   (source)
  • Despite their segregation, the women were required to wear their abayas during mealtime, which made eating a challenge.†   (source)
  • Though streetcars are not segregated in New Orleans, I took a seat near the back.†   (source)
  • He became a leading activist in the movement toward segregation, and was one of the fathers of the idea of separate "ghetto benches" for Jewish students.†   (source)
  • Eighteen children had never seen a hill—eighteen children had never heard the words integration and segregation.†   (source)
  • You get to speak once if you're against segregation, but Breely and his crew can talk as much as they please.†   (source)
  • He had added, "Unless you can catch one not over twelve and segregate her, especially from her mother—and even that may be too late.†   (source)
  • A pioneer in the Civil Rights Movement and one of the principal organizers of the March on Washington in 1963, Lewis often risked his life to challenge segregation during the Freedom Rides and to secure the right to vote for African Americans.†   (source)
  • I can urge them to disobey segregation ordinances, for they are morally wrong.   (source)
    segregation = the act of keeping people separated because of their race
  • He and his cell mates were segregated from the general jailhouse population for their own safety.†   (source)
  • When I was five, I had my first true bout with testing the harsh realities of segregation.†   (source)
  • The downside of his theology was that it promoted a certain segregation from the outside world.†   (source)
  • He doesn't share the way he feels about the marches and the segregation?†   (source)
  • But breaking segregation laws is one of the worst offenses there is.†   (source)
  • Government-supported racial segregation had given way to economically enforced segregation.†   (source)
  • Black folks aren't born expecting segregation, prepared from day one to follow its confining rules.†   (source)
  • One headline in the Gazette read: "Two Pupils Tell of Change in Attitude on Segregation."†   (source)
  • The headlines told the story: FAUBUS CALLS NATIONAL GUARD TO KEEP SCHOOL SEGREGATED†   (source)
  • --MAHATMA GANDHI Americans knew for decades about the unfairness of segregation.†   (source)
  • Public restrooms, drinking fountains, and restaurants there are segregated.†   (source)
  • Even fifty years after Brown v. Board, many American schools are virtually segregated.†   (source)
  • With segregated hospitals, many black patients received what amounted to Third World care.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, "Wait."†   (source)
  • To preserve the evil system of segregation.†   (source)
  • Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States.†   (source)
  • I was in CORE in San Francisco when they decided to segregate it.†   (source)
  • Had this meeting, going to segregate the CORE.†   (source)
  • He put it clearly: I am an Angry Old Man about racial segregation.†   (source)
  • Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly—mostly—let them have their whiteness.†   (source)
  • This rope segregates us, marks us off, keeps the others from contamination by us, makes for us a corral or pen; so into it we go, arranging ourselves in rows, which we know very well how to do, kneeling then on the cement floor.†   (source)
  • The third institution, "Jim Crow," is the legalized racial segregation and suppression of basic rights that defined the American apartheid era.†   (source)
  • From the gist of his introductory remarks, however, Mr. O'Hanlon made plain to her who he was—he was an ordinary, God-fearing man just like any ordinary man, who had quit his job to devote his full time to the preservation of segregation.†   (source)
  • Freedom Riders—African Americans and whites—took bus trips throughout the South to test federal laws that banned segregation in interstate transportation.†   (source)
  • cfm; Louise Cavagnaro, "A History of Segregation and Desegregation at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions," unpublished manuscript (1989) at the AMCMA; and "The Racial Record of Johns Hopkins University," Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 25 (Autumn 1999).†   (source)
  • Though I loved seeing aunts, uncles, and cousins who hadn't been part of my life in years, the basic segregation of my two lives remained.†   (source)
  • I listened in amazement and horror as, through trembling lips, she talked about the hopelessness the people felt during this time and the pain of knowing that this level of segregation, this level of poverty, this level of depression was being imposed on a people for things they were in no way responsible for, or should be ashamed of.†   (source)
  • In fact, it was in the 1950s, after racial segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education, that many Southern states erected Confederate flags atop their state government buildings.†   (source)
  • Not to mention the regulators and patrols and the youth guard and curfew and segregation and just about everything else that makes this one of the worst ideas—†   (source)
  • There communities and states passed laws that allowed discrimination in schooling, housing and job opportunities; prohibited interracial marriages; and enforced segregation by creating separate facilities for African Americans and whites.†   (source)
  • Information here and in later chapters regarding segregation at Johns Hopkins came from interviews as well as from Louise Cavagnaro, "The Way We Were," Dome 55, no. 7 (September 2004), available at hopkinsmedicine.org/dome/0409/featurei. cfm; Louise Cavagnaro, "A History of Segregation and Desegregation at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions," unpublished manuscript (1989) at the AMCMA; and "The Racial Record of Johns Hopkins University," Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 25…†   (source)
  • In those years, of course, public facilities were segregated, so none of the hotels would rent their ballroom to us, and the newspapers acted as if we didn't exist.†   (source)
  • I don't remember much of the trip, but after we reached the segregated southern part of the journey, things must have looked up.†   (source)
  • We have been unwilling to commit to a process of truth and reconciliation in which people are allowed to give voice to the difficulties created by racial segregation, racial subordination, and marginalization.†   (source)
  • It is almost impossible to imagine the courage of the first African American children who walked into segregated schools or the strength of the parents who permitted them to face the hatred and violence that awaited them.†   (source)
  • Even Hopkins, which did treat black patients, segregated them in colored wards, and had colored-only fountains.†   (source)
  • No wonder the regulators decided on the segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.†   (source)
  • Civil rights leaders, staged sit-ins at lunch counters, swim-ins at the beach, kneel-ins in churches, and a fifteen-month boycott of segregated stores.†   (source)
  • In a paper analyzing the data, Chetty and his coauthors noted two important factors that explained the uneven geographic distribution of opportunity: the prevalence of single parents and income segregation.†   (source)
  • His positions were even more pro-segregation than Wallace's (who, having learned his lesson, would become the most famous segregationist in America, declaring in 1963 "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" just a block away from this courthouse).†   (source)
  • For example, we'd recognize that Section 8 vouchers ought to be administered in a way that doesn't segregate the poor into little enclaves.†   (source)
  • It's like they have a language all their own, and for about the thousandth time I think how glad I am that segregation policies keep us separate most of the time.†   (source)
  • Pattillo grew up in the thirties, the son of a blacksmith turned railroad worker in a small segregated Louisiana town.†   (source)
  • When black veterans returned to the South after World War II, Southern politicians formed a "Dixiecrat" bloc to preserve racial segregation and white domination out of fear that military service might encourage black veterans to question racial segregation.†   (source)
  • Segregation has it all wrong.†   (source)
  • So, of course, I made application and donned my warrior garb because it reminded me of the forbidden fences of segregation in Little Rock.†   (source)
  • But if Mamaw and Papaw were isolated from their family, they were hardly segregated from Middletown's broader population.†   (source)
  • Instead, the humiliating expectations and traditions of segregation creep over you, slowly stealing a teaspoonful of your self-esteem each day.†   (source)
  • For instance, when I still worked in Atlanta, our office sued Louisiana's notorious Angola Prison for refusing to modify a policy that required prisoners in segregation cells to place their hands through bars for handcuffing before officers entered to move them.†   (source)
  • …force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century In the aftermath of slavery, the creation of a system of racial hierarchy and segregation was largely designed to prevent intimate relationships like Walter and Karen's—relationships that were, in fact, legally prohibited by "anti-miscegenation statutes" (the word miscegenation came into use in the 1860s, when supporters…†   (source)
  • I grew up in a poor, rural, racially segregated settlement on the eastern shore of the Delmarva Peninsula, in Delaware, where the racial history of this country casts a long shadow The coastal communities that stretched from Virginia and eastern Maryland to lower Delaware were unapologetically Southern.†   (source)
  • And on the other side of the waiting room, segregated by some chairs and modern time, were Vlad, a breathless Marion, and at least twenty other warriors and maidens, all decked out in full medieval regalia.†   (source)
  • I had done the best I could to keep myself segregated, my own life in Colby as separate from hers and my dad's as possible, considering we were living under the same roof.†   (source)
  • Without this empathy there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien, segregated and fragmented.†   (source)
  • They were piled on the bed, clean clothing that covered the entire six-foot span of the mattress, segregated into pants, shirts, undershorts.†   (source)
  • I considered some of the awful things my grandparents and great-grandparents had seen in their lifetimes: two world wars, killer flu, segregation, a nuclear bomb.†   (source)
  • Well drum it and segregate it.†   (source)
  • Isamu Nakane In accordance with the segregation programme which is now being carried out by the Government, you will be required to move to Kaslo where you will await Eastern Placement; as Slocan project has been selected as a Repatriation Camp and will house only those who have elected at the present time, or who may elect in the near future, to return to Japan.†   (source)
  • …ordained by no authority except their own, without church or congregation, without bread or wine, body or blood; the community "leaders" without followers; old men of sixty or more still caught up in post-Civil-War dreams of freedom within segregation; the pathetic ones who possessed nothing beyond their dreams of being gentlemen, who held small jobs or drew small pensions, and all pretending to be engaged in some vast, though obscure, enterprise, who affected the pseudo-courtly…†   (source)
  • The often haphazard segregation of the past three hundred years was to be consolidated into a monolithic system that was diabolical in its detail, inescapable in its reach, andoverwhelming in its power.†   (source)
  • Bailey said, "In the large cities you had spatial segregation but you also had the formation of separate communities often with a kind of oppositional culture to the rest of the U.S. This created an ideal context for African American Vernacular English to develop along a sort of separate track."†   (source)
  • Without Zayd, Cedric prowled around the campus through February, mostly by himself, observing the segregation.†   (source)
  • Their model juror was a white female, age forty-five or older, someone raised in the deeply segregated old South and not the least bit tolerant of blacks.†   (source)
  • The housing estates were nothing if not gossipy, sexually segregated Arab villages, and Dr. Leila Hadawi was something new and interesting.†   (source)
  • Eventually, they discuss Franklin's final project this semester about comparisons of integrated secondary schools with segregated ones.†   (source)
  • Tadashi Nakane As you have no doubt already heard, the Government has ordered that people of Japanese origin are to be segregated into different camps according to the category under which they come.†   (source)
  • The island had one hospital, and it was difficult to segregate us from the general prisoners while we were there.†   (source)
  • Bobby Kennedy was instrumental in helping civil rights activists known as Freedom Riders travel by bus into the South to fight segregation in 1961.†   (source)
  • William Labov of Philadelphia says that today "the African American community are carried even further away on a separate current of grammatical change … as a consequence of the large and increasing residential segregation of African Americans in Northern cities."†   (source)
  • The first time I ever slept in the same quarters with African-Americans or took orders from African-Americans was at Parris Island in Marine Corps boot camp, and it was the political courage of one man, President Harry Truman, who ended the racial segregation of the U.S. military because he believed that fairness is at the heart of our values as a nation.†   (source)
  • The UDF had been created to coordinate protest against the new apartheid constitution in 1983, and the first elections to the segregated tricameral Parliament in 1984.†   (source)
  • The implication that Lott was a fan of segregation raised enough of a fury that he was forced to quit his Senate leadership post.†   (source)
  • In a hastily written and partially improvised speech that would one day be counted among his best, the president promised that his administration would do everything it could to end segregation.†   (source)
  • And I say, segregation today!†   (source)
  • Since 1953 this act had enforced what was known as "petty apartheid," segregating parks, theaters, restaurants, buses, libraries, toilets, and other public facilities, according to race.†   (source)
  • In addition to economic and social disparity between blacks and whites, Fryer had become intrigued by the virtual segregation of culture.†   (source)
  • All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality.†   (source)
  • Lott made a reference in his toast to Thurmond's 1948 campaign for president, which was built on a platform of segregation; Mississippi—Lott's home state—was one of just four states that Thurmond carried.†   (source)
  • Segregation tomorrow!†   (source)
  • Segregation forever!†   (source)
  • Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up that state's segregation laws was democratically elected?†   (source)
  • King reminds them that America is still a segregated nation, one hundred years after the slaves were freed.†   (source)
  • Is not segregation an existential expression of man's tragic separation, his awful estrangement, his terrible sinfulness?†   (source)
  • Hence segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and sinful.†   (source)
  • Unlike so many of their moderate brothers and sisters, they have recognized the urgency of the moment and sensed the need for powerful "action" antidotes to combat the disease of segregation.†   (source)
  • Segregation, to use the terminology of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, substitutes an "I it" relationship for an "I thou" relationship and ends up relegating persons to the status of things.†   (source)
  • Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation.†   (source)
  • But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First-Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest.†   (source)
  • Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court's decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws.†   (source)
  • One is a force of complacency, made up in part of Negroes who, as a result of long years of oppression, are so drained of self respect and a sense of "somebodiness" that they have adjusted to segregation; and in part of a few middle-class Negroes who, because of a degree of academic and economic security and because in some ways they profit by segregation, have become insensitive to the problems of the masses.†   (source)
  • It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.†   (source)
  • It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.†   (source)
  • Segregation was such an easy thing.†   (source)
  • He said wasn't it in Poland that young, harmless Jewish students were segregated, made to sit on separate seats at school and treated worse than Negroes in Mississippi?†   (source)
  • He had been my principal during the years of total segregation, those mindlessly happy years of my dead youth when Beaufort High School was a beleaguered Camelot, still white but troubled by rumblings from the Supreme Court.†   (source)
  • That is to say, segregated.†   (source)
  • It made things clear, it clarified motives and it certainly lifted the entire matter above segregation and desegregation.†   (source)
  • My father flew jets in its skies and I went to the local segregated high school, courted the daughter of the Baptist minister, and tried to master the fast break and the quick jump shot.†   (source)
  • Though segregation and discrimination still prevail and still work a hardship, great strides have been made—strides that must give hope to every observer of the South.†   (source)
  • As the situation in the South degenerated after the 1954 Supreme Court decision on segregation, he was faced with a choice—either he must continue more and more to alter truth to make it conform to people's comfort, or he must write the truth in the dim hope that people would alter their comfort to conform to it.†   (source)
  • For example, if a black man set up a business, he might very well hear his black potential clients say: "After all this struggle for integration, I'm not going to self-segregate," and refuse to patronize his business.†   (source)
  • I am not a man for segregation, but it is a pity that we are not apart.†   (source)
  • It is true that we hoped to preserve the tribal system by a policy of segregation.†   (source)
  • Four feet of the school yard faced on Francie's yard and was segregated from it by an iron mesh fence.†   (source)
  • The authorities had the idea of segregating certain particularly affected central areas and permitting only those whose services were indispensable to cross the cordon.†   (source)
  • "Crimes such as the Bigger Thomas murders could be lessened by segregating all Negroes in parks, playgrounds, caf"s, theatres, and street cars.†   (source)
  • Residential segregation is imperative.†   (source)
  • You think that because your color makes it easy for them to point you out, segregate you, exploit you.†   (source)
  • II As the dancers poured out of the hall Frome, drawing back behind the projecting storm-door, watched the segregation of the grotesquely muffled groups, in which a moving lantern ray now and then lit up a face flushed with food and dancing.†   (source)
  • He returned with the township police officer and had the seamstress arrested and confined in the segregation ward of the county poor-farm.†   (source)
  • He meant to fence off side canyons and to segregate droves of his hogs, and to raise abundance of corn for winter feed.†   (source)
  • A vicious person, always affecting the same air of virtue before people whom he is anxious to keep from having any suspicion of his vices, has no register, no gauge at hand from which he may ascertain bow far those vices (their continuous growth being imperceptible by himself) have gradually segregated him from the normal ways of life.†   (source)
  • In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the Negroes are a segregated servile caste, with restricted rights and privileges.†   (source)
  • Even when productive industry is free, the fixed character which belongs to aristocratic nations gradually segregates all the persons who practise the same art, till they form a distinct class, always composed of the same families, whose members are all known to each other, and amongst whom a public opinion of their own and a species of corporate pride soon spring up.†   (source)
  • Even in the country something of this segregation is manifest in the smaller areas, and of course in the larger phenomena of the Black Belt.†   (source)
  • All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.†   (source)
  • I commend you, Reverend Stallings, for your Christian stand on this past Sunday, in welcoming Negroes to your worship service on a nonsegregated basis.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonsegregated means not and reverses the meaning of segregated. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
  • Another bill, to levy penalizing fines against any church holding nonsegregated services, was, he contended, in flagrant contradiction to the First Amendment of the Constitution.†   (source)
  • The present now and here, America's busy, teeming, intricate whirl, Of aggregate and segregate for only thence releasing, To-day's eidolons.†   (source)
  • …the town, the inhabitants of which have very little intercourse with the householders of Hanover or Grosvenor-square (for he entered through Gray's-inn-lane), so he rambled about some time before he could even find his way to those happy mansions where fortune segregates from the vulgar those magnanimous heroes, the descendants of antient Britons, Saxons, or Danes, whose ancestors, being born in better days, by sundry kinds of merit, have entailed riches and honour on their posterity.†   (source)
  • A segregation of the Turkish fleet: For do but stand upon the foaming shore, The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds; The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main, Seems to cast water on the burning Bear, And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole; I never did like molestation view On the enchafed flood.†   (source)
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