Sentence examples for wall of segregation from inspiring English sources

"He comes back to exert this new sense of value" and runs into the brick wall of segregation, Mr. Glover continues.

We had a wall of segregation, and children told me they were worried about what might happen to them if they crossed it.

The Crest Academies school was formed by the merger of adjacent two single-sex schools last year, and prior to the arrival of new principal Mohsen Ojja had a "wall of segregation" down the middle of the campus to ensure that boys and girls couldn't interact, even outside the classroom.

Although the wall of segregation in sports seemed insurmountable, it failed to deter Bob Douglas, a West Indian who moved to New York in 1901 at age 19, taking with him an entrepreneurial spirit that seemed to be more common among black Caribbean immigrants than it was among those African Americans who had gone north as part of the Great Migration.

The torrent of demonstrations, sit-ins, marches and civil rights legislation annihilated the legal wall of segregation.

She believed that dwelling on the issue would leave us less capable of grasping the opportunities that would come to us once the walls of segregation fell.

The fear of failure haunted him in a way that no white child could understand, or black parents either, accustomed to living behind the walls of segregation that were now falling down.

Then, the dynamism of rapid social change, the cracking in the walls of segregation and exclusion, was reflected in the music from jazz hall to church.

Looking back, Angelou feels we made a "huge mistake" as the walls of segregation started to crumble and integration started to roll across the country.

The nation has progressed considerably in the half-century since the Civil Rights Movement gained enough momentum and support to begin crumbling the legal walls of segregation.

The ultimate goal of that community is a truly integrated society, which King maintained would not come simply through tearing down the walls of segregation but rather would emerge only when people of all races and classes recognized their interdependence.