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  2. Racial segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Segregation was enforced across the U.S. for much of its history. Racial segregation follows two forms, de jure and de facto. De jure segregation mandated the separation of races by law, and was the form imposed by U.S. states in slave codes before the Civil War and by Black Codes and Jim Crow laws following the war, primarily in the Southern ...

  3. List of Jim Crow law examples by state - Wikipedia

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    Segregation of public facilities was barred in 1884, and the earlier miscegenation and school segregation laws were overturned in 1887. In 1953, the state enacted a law requiring that race be considered in adoption decisions which was supplanted in 1996 by Ohio's implementation of the federal multiethnic placement act (MEPA), by an ...

  4. School segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The segregation of Mexican children occurred throughout much of the U.S. West. During the Depression era in Wyoming, the segregation of Mexican children—whether they were US citizens or not—mirrored Jim Crow laws. The segregation of Mexicans also took place in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, [33] and Texas.

  5. Racial segregation - Wikipedia

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    Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. Segregation can involve the spatial separation of the races, and ...

  6. School integration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The subject of desegregation was becoming more inflamed. In March 1970, President Richard M. Nixon decided to take action. He declared Brown to be ''right in both constitutional and human terms'' and expressed his intention to enforce the law. He also put in place a process to carry out the court's mandate.

  7. History of civil rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    De jure segregation was outlawed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. [12] In specific areas, however, segregation was barred earlier by the Warren Court in decisions such as the Brown v. Board of Education decision that overturned school segregation in the United States.

  8. Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech: Full text - AOL

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    But it was Dr. King's iconic "I Have a Dream" speech that immediately took its place as one of the greatest in U.S. history. ... by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination ...

  9. Desegregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The desegregation plan did not allow any school to enroll more than 50% of any ethnic group. Originally intended to aid integration of Black students, the ruling had a negative effect on the admissions of Chinese Americans, who had become the district's largest ethnic group. The newspaper AsianWeek documented the Chinese American parents ...