Here's a look at the history of Black civil rights in the United States of America, from the 1500s to the present day.
Racial segregation provides a means of maintaining the economic advantages and superior social status of the politically dominant group, and in recent times it has been employed primarily by white populations to maintain their ascendancy over other groups by means of legal and social colour bars. ...
Another little-remembered facet of anti-Latino discrimination in the United States is school segregation. Unlike the South, which had explicit laws barring African American children from white schools, segregation was not enshrined in the laws of the southwestern United States. Nevertheless, Latino peop...
Residential segregation was practiced by federal, state, and local governments as an instrument of racial domination in the United States throughout much of the 20th century. Systematic racial discrimination in housing was unconstitutionally developed and implemented by state and federal agencies. Laws,...
Segregation is the practice of requiring separate housing, education and other services for people of color. Segregation was made law several times in 19th- and 20th-century America as some believed that Black and white people were incapable of coexisting. In the lead-up to the liberation of ...
Polygamy was still noxious to just about everyone else, though, and the already swirling rumors help explain why the Mormons were run out of New York and then Ohio and then Missouri before Joseph and Hyrum Smith were lynched in Illinois, and why Brigham Young then bade America adieu entirely...
February – Confederate States of America established with its capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. (Zuczek, xlix) Jefferson Davis begins his term as president of the Confederate States of America, whose constitution gave recognition and protection to “the institution of negro slavery.” (Davis, xv) ...
Public Health Then and Now History Counts : A Comparative Analysis of Racial / Color Categorization in US and Brazilian Censuses B Censuses 被引量: 101发表: 2000年 Racial Segregation, the Concentration of Disadvantage, and Black and White Homicide Victimization Discriminatory housing market practices ...
In South Africa, the provision of collective consumption and urban racial segregation have always been closely connected. This article examines changes in ... M Lupton - 《Antipode》 被引量: 22发表: 1993年 How the federal government zoned America: The federal housing administration and zoning Jou...
Racism and past policies of racial segregation have kept Chinese Americans largely separated from the mainstream of the society. Nevertheless, there has been contact between Chinese and other racial groups. For example, some Chinese established small general stores in poor black communities in the rura...