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  2. Racial segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981, ending segregation in the United States Armed Forces. A club central to the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, was a whites-only establishment, with blacks (such as Duke Ellington) allowed to perform, but to a white audience. [70]

  3. The U.S. Is Increasingly Diverse, So Why Is Segregation ... - AOL

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    More than 80% of large metropolitan areas in the United States were more segregated in 2019 than they were in 1990, according to an analysis of residential segregation released Monday by the ...

  4. Racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces

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    An African-American military policeman on a motorcycle in front of the "colored" MP entrance, Columbus, Georgia, in 1942.. A series of policies were formerly issued by the U.S. military which entailed the separation of white and non-white American soldiers, prohibitions on the recruitment of people of color and restrictions of ethnic minorities to supporting roles.

  5. Racial segregation - Wikipedia

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    De facto segregation in the United States has increased since the civil rights movement, while official segregation has been outlawed. [135] The Supreme Court ruled in Milliken v. Bradley (1974) that de facto racial segregation was acceptable, as long as schools were not actively making policies for racial exclusion; since then, schools have ...

  6. Economic segregation in schools has worsened, widening ...

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    The study found patterns of increasing segregation 68 years after the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education unanimously outlawed segregated schools.

  7. Category : History of racial segregation in the United States

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    School segregation in the United States; Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project; Segregated prom; Shelley House (St. Louis, Missouri) Slavery during the American Civil War; Southern Manifesto; St James Episcopal Church (Baltimore, Maryland) Stanley Plan; Sundown town; List of sundown towns in the United States; Ossian Sweet

  8. Decades after Brown v. Board, US schools still struggle with ...

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    Board of Education decision, handed down in 1954, was supposed to end racial segregation in the nation’s public schools. But that work remains undone, as evidenced by a U.S. Department of ...

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

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    The 1954–1968 civil rights movement [a] in the United States was preceded by a decades-long campaign by African Americans and their like-minded allies to end legalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement, and racial segregation in the United States.