Sentence examples for preserving segregation from inspiring English sources

The sticky role of preference in preserving segregation — and how to change it.

Indeed, it was not poor whites – not even white Republicans – who passed legislation bent on preserving segregation, or who watched the Confederate flag raised outside state capitols for decades to come.

Headed by state legislators, governors and white businessmen opposed to desegregation, the group was pledged to preserve segregation.

As noted by the Supreme Court in a number of cases, local officials adopted the plans to preserve segregation.

But many whites in the south, and their state and local governments, fought tooth and nail to preserve segregation.

Few people, either integrationist or unreconstructed segregationist, held grudges against Mr. Davis on that day in 1999 for his ineffectual efforts to preserve segregation in Louisiana.

Mr. Pickering's critics have also charged that he misled Congress at his last confirmation hearings about contacts he had in the 1970's with the Sovereignty Commission, which worked to preserve segregation in Mississippi.

But even though the struggle to preserve segregation was lost by the 1970s, Montgomery didn't put the slogan "Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement" on its seal until 2002; and while by that point the issue may have become nonpolitical enough for the city to embrace the struggle for racial equality, it hadn't become nonpolitical enough for the city to drop the old homage to the Confederacy.

White opponents of racial integration who were determined to preserve segregation and White Supremacy unleashed yet another wave of violent terrorism.

Wallace had promised to stand in the schoolhouse door to preserve segregation.

The more the national media covered civil rights protests in the South, the more public opinion turned against those who were seeking to preserve segregation.