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  2. Racial segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Schools were segregated in the U.S. and educational opportunities for Black people were restricted. Efforts to establish schools for them were met with violent opposition from the public. The U.S. government established Indian boarding school where Native Americans were sent. The African Free School was established in New York City in the 18th ...

  3. Racial segregation - Wikipedia

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    After the end of British rule in 1962, Indian people living in Uganda existed in segregated ethnic communities with their own schools and healthcare. [ 29 ] Indians constituted 1% of the population but earned a fifth of the national income and controlled 90% of the country's businesses.

  4. School integration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Despite these Reconstruction amendments, blatant discrimination took place through what would come to be known as Jim Crow laws.As a result of these laws, African Americans were required to sit on different park benches, use different drinking fountains, and ride in different railroad cars than their white counterparts, among other segregated aspects of life. [8]

  5. School segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    More than half of students in the United States attend school districts with high concentrations of people (over 75%) of their own ethnicity and about 40% of black students attend schools where 90%-100% of students are non-white. [10] [11] Blacks, "Mongolians" (Chinese), Japanese, Latino, and Native American students were segregated in ...

  6. Desegregation busing - Wikipedia

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    Prior to World War II, most public schools in the country were de jure or de facto segregated. All Southern states had Jim Crow Laws mandating racial segregation of schools. . Northern states and some border states were primarily white (in 1940, the populations of Detroit and Chicago were more than 90% white) and existing black populations were concentrated in urban ghettos partly as the ...

  7. Racism against African Americans - Wikipedia

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    Thousands of Black people were resettled in Liberia, where they formed an American English-speaking enclave which could not assimilate back into African life and as a result, most of them died of tropical diseases. White supremacist American governments emphasized the importance of the subjugation and control of other racial populations.

  8. Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami. Why ...

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    Prior to 1939, the record number of Black votes cast in a Miami city primary was 150. The day after the Klan parade, more than 1,400 Black voters cast their ballots. | Opinion

  9. African-American history - Wikipedia

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    In Virginia, the number of free Black people increased from 10,000 in 1790 to nearly 30,000 in 1810, but 95% of Black people were still enslaved. In Delaware, three-quarters of all Black people were free by 1810. [61] By 1860, just over 91% of Delaware's Black people were free, and 49.1% of those in Maryland. [62]