2.The policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, as in schools, housing, and public or commercial facilities, especially as a form of discrimination. 3.GeneticsThe separation of paired alleles or homologous chromosomes, especially during meiosis, so that...
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In Play: Martin Luther King, Jr. led the struggle against racial segregation in America after the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 forced the desegregation of US schools. The protests led by him brought about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Fair Housing Act and Voting ...
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...completesegregationin this city in all public gatherings, the women at the theaters are put off in one of those real galleries such as we think used to be and are not now. The place for the women in the hall of the Board of Education is good enough and on one side facing the ...
In 1954, the Supreme Court took a momentous step: InBrown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.the court set aside a Kansas statute permitting cities of more than 15,000 to maintain separate schools for blacks and whites and ruled instead that all segregation in public schools is “inheren...
Today education is arguably 'the most important and intractable issue in South Africa's social fabric' (Lee et al. , 1991: p. 156). There is little chance that education can truly be depoliticised, because whatever the composition of a new government, its ability to meet people's ...
“Negroes have been waiting 300 years for an equal break... they wanted an equal break in education now, today, in San Bernardino.” San Bernardino County Sun, August 26th, 1965. This article detailed African American residents complaints to the Human Relations Commission about the inferior educ...
are explicitly fundamentalist. This includes the 155 schools in the Association of Christian Schools International (ASCI) where they boast of“the highest belief in biblical accuracy in scientific and historical matters.”It also includes at least 35 schools in the Keystone Christian Education ...
Inside the crumbling Sabine High School today. Image © Laura Blokker Throughout the south of the United States, hundreds of mid-century “equalization schools”—public schools built in the 1950s following Brown vs. Board of Education in a desperate effort to maintain segregated “separate but...