Sentence examples similar to sit in segregation from inspiring English sources
Adam Capay sat in segregation in the Thunder Bay jail, 23 hours a day, for four years.
When the New Deal took her to Birmingham, Alabama for the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, she boldly defied Alabama's segregation laws by choosing to sit in the space between white and black seating areas.
He grew up in East Harlem and the South Bronx, but for several years lived with family friends in Tennessee and Illinois, where he came face to face with segregation: he was regularly told to sit in the back of the bus.
Nicola Dandridge, the chief executive of Universities UK, insisted that institutions would not enforce segregation but if participants were happy to sit in separate groups that would be permitted as long as there was no disadvantage.
By the time Charles Perkins and his fellow students at Sydney University rode through the town as part of the 1965 Freedom Rides, there were still forms of segregation, including separate places for blacks to sit in the local cinema.
Ms Dandridge insisted that institutions would not enforce segregation but if participants were happy to sit in separate groups, that would be permitted as long as there was no disadvantage.
Although only one white needed a seat, all four blacks were required to move because the segregation statutes also stated that it was illegal for any black to sit in the same row as a white on a city bus.
But the hosts asked him to "please vacate and go sit in the right section," turning a bit about Hollywood hierarchies and the Golden Globes seating chart into a thinly veiled allusion to segregation.
