Sentence examples for public segregation from inspiring English sources

Four years after city officials changed the name of the park's border to Dowling Street, the United States Supreme Court ruled public segregation constitutional in Plessy v. Ferguson.

And Malaysian women's success, she believes, stems largely from the fact that there is no public segregation of men and women in this country.

In the late 1950s CORE turned its attention to the South, challenging public segregation and launching voter registration drives for African Americans.

And while the YMCA was forced to change its segregating practices in 1970 with a successful suit brought against it, the city's YMCA deal had managed to almost perfectly emulate former public segregation practices privately.

Gordon explores the label's centrality as a commercial force in Memphis during the sixties and seventies, as well as the ways in which its almost miraculously organic integration of blacks and whites at every level of the company during a period of public segregation, limited opportunity, and racial conflict made it a kind of hopeful oasis.

Sensing that 'Cap' was a natural leader, Stan made him a linchpin of the group almost at once". Lee also innovated in terms of race, introducing Black Panther, a stereotype-free black superhero who first appeared in a Fantastic Four story in 1966, only two years after the end of public segregation.

That reality is explained in a new report called "For Public Schools, Segregation Then, Segregation Since: Education and the Unfinished March" by Richard Rothstein of the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute, which looks at the reasons and the implications of continued school segregation.

But he said he felt bound to uphold the law as laid down in the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling against public school segregation.

Waring began issuing major civil rights decisions from his Charleston courtroom, including a 1951 dissent in Briggs v. Elliott, declaring public school segregation per se unconstitutional.

He agreed that the Supreme Court was right to outlaw public school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education and said there was new historical evidence to suggest that the framers of the 14th Amendment had envisioned just such a result.

Infuriated by the Supreme Court's temerity in striking down public school segregation, the Southern Democrats who in those days still largely ran the Senate began to require that all potential justices give testimony before the Judiciary Committee.