Sentence examples for fleeing segregation from inspiring English sources
In all six million people left the south, fleeing segregation under the so-called Jim Crow laws.
First, it was African Americans fleeing segregation in the South after World War II, who settled there because of racially discriminatory covenants elsewhere in the city.
Between the 1910s and 1970, the Great Migration saw 6 million black Americans flee segregation and racial terrorism in the rural South for better lives in the urban Northeast, Midwest and West.
A native of Virginia's rural Eastern Shore, the governor noted that he went to integrated public schools in the 1970s, a time when many affluent white children fled to segregation academies, and he called himself "a man of honor," invoking his leadership on V.M.I.'s honor court.
Cities like New York, Detroit, Chicago and Oakland were end points for many black Americans fleeing Jim Crow and segregation – often by the same railroad that took settlers out west.
Growing up in Durham, N.C., she early on developed a hatred for Southern segregation, fleeing to New York shortly after finishing high school.
More than 1,000 people were killed, and hundreds of thousands fled ethnically mixed areas, creating a degree of ethnic segregation that had never existed in this country before.
Today in the east, where Muslims lost large areas of land as they fled the killers, Tamils and Muslims live in uneasy segregation.
Residential segregation on the basis of ethnicity became almost total, as Arabs fled from west Jerusalem and Jews from the Jewish quarter of the Old City.
Many people have fled ethnically mixed areas in convoys of overloaded trucks, creating a degree of ethnic segregation that this country has never experienced.
