Sentence examples for escape segregation from inspiring English sources

"A number of black musicians became expatriates to escape segregation in the States," he once told an interviewer.

"My grandmother's generation left the South and came to the North to escape segregation and racism," she said.

Samuel Calahan headed north 50 years ago, at the age of 17, to escape segregation and find better work after years on the plantations.

After all these years, Mr. Salter, whose family left Mississippi in the 1940s to escape segregation, said he no longer harbors hope for integration.

Too dark to pose plausibly as northern European, black people of Mrs. Connolly's color passed as Italian, Greek, Spanish or Portuguese -- anything to escape segregation and the penalties associated with blackness.

NATIONAL An article on Friday about the nearly 40-year fight over desegregation in the Tucson Unified School District misstated the decade in which the family of Rubin Salter Jr., a lawyer representing black plaintiffs in the desegregation lawsuit, left Mississippi to escape segregation.

In 1939, at 19, he left for Detroit, partly to escape racial segregation.

While whites from downtown were drawn to the basement dives to hear often bawdy singers and pianists like Willie (the Lion) Smith, Harlemites enjoyed the area, Mr. Freeland wrote, as "simply a place where they could relax, socialize and escape the segregation of the more expensive white-oriented night spots — such as Connie's Inn and the Cotton Club — that populated other sections of Harlem".

She is the daughter of Donna Barrato, a white Canadian from Toronto, and Leo James, a black American from Mississippi who came to Canada to escape racial segregation.

His family, part of the Great Migration north to escape racial segregation, became prominent in their new community, sharing in the intellectual, artistic, and political mainstream of the 1920s and '30s cultural movement, Harlem Renaissance.

When Dunmore Ford recalls how much she and her husband, William Ford, Sr., loved New York City, implicit in that is their escape from the segregation of nineteen-sixties Charleston, South Carolina.