Sentence examples for uphold segregation from inspiring English sources

Back when the Republicans were best-known for having ended slavery and the Democrats were fighting to uphold segregation, black Americans who could vote mostly cast their ballots for the party of Lincoln.

Never mind that she signed a pledge against her current position -- and that, if she really thinks its a "civil rights" question, that was the moral equivalent of agreeing to uphold segregation.

Plessy v. Ferguson was the "separate but equal" decision that upheld segregation in 1896.

Three years after the 1964 civil rights bill ostensibly made legal segregation illegal, Southern cities tried to sneak laws onto the books upholding segregation.

When the 1896 Supreme Court upheld segregation and the doctrine of separate but equal set forth in Plessy v. Ferguson, Jim Crow -- a set of laws that made African Americans second-class citizens in the United States -- followed.

The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, also known as the "religious police," or "Mutaween," was accused of allegedly hindering rescue efforts of the 2002 Mecca schoolgirl fire to uphold gender segregation.

Nayif is sympathetic to fundamentalist Wahhabi clerics who uphold the segregation of sexes and have resisted the monarch's attempts at modest reforms to ease religion's grip on schools, courts and other institutions.

In an 86-page complaint, the ACLU of Mississippi and the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP accuse the Madison County Sheriff's Department of abusing its power to uphold racial segregation and oppression in Mississippi's wealthiest county.

For many decades, the courts upheld racial segregation; then, suddenly, they didn't.

The justices of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), who upheld racial segregation, could at least plead historical blinders.

Indeed, precisely because they were "more sensitive than schools," a judge upheld the segregation of Baltimore's municipal pools in 1954.