Sentence examples for illegal segregation from inspiring English sources

Their mission was to nonviolently confront local laws and customs that perpetuated illegal segregation.

This week in the magazine, Calvin Trillin remembers reporting on the Freedom Rides, a civil-rights campaign aimed at demonstrating the illegal segregation of interstate bus travel.

If this were true, interracial marriage would still be illegal, and segregation the rule of the South.

Didn't we make segregation illegal decades ago?

The law successfully made these individual acts of explicit racial discrimination in housing transactions illegal, and residential segregation by race has since declined.

The Legislature added the Confederate symbol in 1956, less than two years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision rendered school segregation illegal.

The Republican administration had introduced a strong bill, Title III of which would have made segregation illegal in schools and public places such as swimming pools and restaurants.

Judge Roberts acknowledged this as his view of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision that made school segregation illegal, setting aside an 1896 case, Plessy v. Ferguson, that had established the doctrine of "separate but equal".

The Clarks' findings, that black children from segregated schools were more likely to prefer white dolls, played a part in the landmark supreme court decision in Brown v Board of Education that made segregation illegal in the US.

The Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education made formal school segregation illegal in 1954.

We are, this year, 60 years removed from the epochal Brown v. Board of Education decision rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954, which made segregation illegal in educational institutions.