In 1942, 8 Mile was a black neighbourhood – segregated by law, segregated by culture, segregated from white Oakland County by the eponymous 8 Mile Road.
So when I started school, the schools were segregated by law.
My high school, even though I had no idea of this at the time, was segregated by law.
In the North, African Americans were not usually segregated by law, but local custom dictated second-class citizenship for them.
In the context of turn-of-the century Southern society, segregated by law and custom, the diversity displayed in his negatives is striking.
Unlike going to school, riding a bus, sitting at a lunch counter, or playing checkers (a pastime once segregated by law in the city of Birmingham), casting a ballot is not a social activity.
Judge Clark was presiding over a lawsuit intended to desegregate the Kansas City schools, which were once segregated by law and are now heavily black as a result of white flight to the suburbs.
(a) Although a District Court necessarily has discretion to fashion a remedy for a school district unconstitutionally segregated in law, such remedial power is not unlimited and may not be extended to purposes beyond the elimination of racial discrimination in public schools.
From the 16th until end of the 18th century, Jews across Europe had been segregated by law into specified rural areas, towns, and city ghettos.
Schools in northern cities, like New York, weren't segregated by law, but discriminatory housing patterns fostered racial divides all the same.
