Sentence examples for under segregation from inspiring English sources

UNDER segregation, black women were so rigidly excluded from good jobs that 60% of those who were employed in 1940 worked as maids.

What difficulties did you experience under segregation?

"Growing up under segregation will do that," he said of his self-reliance.

Under segregation, southern blacks were barred from white schools, neighbourhoods and opportunities.

Many of the organisations set up under segregation - the sororities, fraternities and masons, churches and newspapers - still exist.

She led the crowd, about 100 people, into the building and then addressed them, telling them the story of her childhood experiences under segregation.

Bono's family struggled under religious segregation in Ireland.

Under the segregation law, which was not repealed until 1996, thousands of patients were confined in leprosy sanitariums on islands and mountains.

At the time, Mr. Harris was under administrative segregation, a form of separation from other prisoners, for hitting a guard, and should not have been put in with other prisoners.

Bickerstaff -- who has been witness to this evolution toward equal-opportunity hiring and firing that Thomas exercised when he let Chaney go -- grew up in Kentucky under strict segregation.

Only through this common effort to combat structural inequality, under privilege, segregation, and religio-ethnic prejudice - which are the real obstacles to social mobility and integration - can we bridge the vast distances between the abstract and the concrete.