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...
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...
Segregation in schools today creates a two-tier system wherein minority students often receive a substandard education. Moreover, they are often tested for cognitive deficits and identified for special education services using a nationally normed assessment. The practice of assessing students from ...
racial barriers leading to unequal treatment in state professional schools and in interstate transportation. In these rulings, however, the court still ruled only on whether facilities provided for blacks and whites were equal, and not on whether the separation of the races itself was ...
In the segregative South of the 1950s, African Americans went to poorer, separate schools from white Americans, had to sit in the balconies of theaters and the back of the bus, were not allowed to eat in restaurants with whites. All bathrooms and drinking fountains came in segregated pairs...
Mexican Americans have a long but lesser-known history in the struggle to end school segregation and achieve educational equality. Mexican-American resistance to school segregation: The history of Mexican Americans' efforts to desegregate schools shows that laws do not have to explicitly require separat...
by fear or hate, de facto religious segregation existed in Europe for centuries. In the United States today, the high concentration of Black people in certain neighborhoods sometimes results in public schools with mostly Black students, despite laws prohibiting intentional racial segregation of schools...
The state attempted to prove that there were no vestiges of segregation in the Yonkers public schools, but the court thought otherwise and ordered the city and the state to share in the costs of a second desegregation plan—devised by the court—called the "Educational Improvement Plan." ...
Sep 10, 1963 Twenty black students entered previously all-white public schools in Birmingham, Mobile, and Tuskegee, Alabama. On the same day, white students began to withdraw from the newly-integrated Tuskegee High School in Alabama to avoid attending scho...
They don’t believe racism is much of a problem today or that schools should be engaged in antiracist work. It’s aculture war issuefor them. That’s all.Republicans vs Democrats.So-called conservatives vs so-called liberals.The usual cable TV political football game. ...