The phrase "a time of segregation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a historical period characterized by the separation of different groups, often based on race or ethnicity.
Example: "The civil rights movement emerged as a response to a time of segregation in the United States."
Alternatives: "an era of division" or "a period of separation".
This was a time of segregation.
It was a time of segregation, of "Coloured Only" and "White Only" signs, and Jim Crow laws.
The experts find it odd that a ball field was named for Lloyd in 1949, a time of segregation and racial tension, and delve into the story behind the honor.
There is however a danger that the vast weight of Robinson's story could be lost on those who didn't grow up in a time, or closer to a time, of segregation and unabashed racism.
She engendered controversy in both her private and professional lives, marrying a white Jewish man during a time of segregation and challenging black intellectuals who opposed the "primitive" in her choreography.
A younger generation of dance enthusiasts looked upon it as a cultural phenomenon that inspired high-flying invention on the dance floor and brought blacks and whites together in a time of segregation.
You'd notice his smile right away". Allen, who died March 31, was born in 1919 and raised in a log cabin in Virginia during a time of harsh segregation.
In her smoothly modeled clay, wood and stone sculptures, and vigorous woodcuts and linocuts, Ms. Catlett drew on her experience as an African-American woman who had come of age at a time of widespread segregation and who had felt its sting.
This was at a time of acute racial segregation in Louisiana, and Rideau was in serious danger of being lynched.
In a time of massive unemployment, lynching, segregation, and discrimination, 90 of the volunteers were African American.
It's worth remembering that he gave these lectures in Virginia, in the Old South in a time of Jim Crow laws and racial segregation; he talked of the American civil war as a disaster and of the US's industrial north as wrecked by immigration.
