Sentence examples for escape the segregation from inspiring English sources
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".
Both areas have developed into increasingly exclusivist spaces and as such show that intermediate cities and urbanizing regions can no longer escape the spatial segregation, gentrification and inequality that used to be associated almost solely with metropolitan centers.
Especially from this period on, blacks left Texas in the Great Migration to get work in the Northern United States or California and to escape the oppression of segregation.
During the first half of the twentieth century, there wasn't just Anatole Broyard alone there were thousands, probably tens of thousands, of light-skinned men and women who decided to escape the rigors of institutionalized segregation and the ugliness of Jim Crow by burying for good their original black lives.
"Escape?" the Minotaur said.
To escape the imprisoned longing.
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.
