Sentence examples for segregation era from inspiring English sources

Aikerson grew up in the segregation era on property that abutted the university's campus in unincorporated Lorman, Miss.

Saturday's vote indicated a transition is in the making, perhaps similar to the one that occurred at the end of the segregation era here.

The anthropology team has focused largely on Boot Hill, which during the segregation era was a documented cemetery on the African-American side of campus.

In an On Baseball column last week, I compared the effects of the steroid era to the segregation era before 1947.

We have to accept that steroids are a part of baseball history, the way we accept the statistics from the segregation era, when players never competed against African-Americans.

This is the sort of thing they don't train you for at M.I.T. Bernanke grew up in the small town of Dillon, S.C., at the tail end of the segregation era (in high school he wrote a schoolboy's novel about whites and blacks coming together on the basketball team).

I am not sure if it's an ingrained reaction to the history of slavery and the abuses suffered at the hands of the KKK during the segregation eras, but there seems to be widespread defiance and distrust of the police among African Americans.

He said he disagreed with Mr. Cosby for singling out low-income people as having failed to hold up their end through destructive behavior in the post-segregation era.

Byron Pitts, a CBS correspondent, recounted to Katie Couric the phone call he placed to his 76-year-old mother, who had lived in the segregation-era South.

Government agencies, large corporations and the military — at least in this country — can make the art world look like a segregation-era backwater.

The German word "neger" was standard usage in 1957 and roughly equivalent to the word "Negro," which was commonplace in segregation-era America.