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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 slave codes before the Civil War and by Black Codes and Jim Crow laws following the war.

  3. 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 mandatory use of different institutions, such as schools and hospitals by people of different races.

  4. Residential segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Residential segregation has had major consequences for poverty and health disparities; for example, a 2016 study in the Journal of Urban Health found significantly higher levels of childhood blood poisoning in Black children than White children in Detroit, and that a neighborhood's socioeconomic position was correlated with average blood lead ...

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

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    In 2019, 169 out of 209 metropolitan regions in the U.S. were more segregated than in 1990, a new analysis finds

  6. Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia

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    In 1954, segregation of public schools (state-sponsored) was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka . [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In some states, it took many years to implement this decision, while the Warren Court continued to rule against Jim Crow legislation in other cases ...

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

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    1864–1908: [Statute] Passed three Jim Crow laws between 1864 and 1908, all concerning miscegenation. School segregation was barred in 1876, followed by ending segregation of public facilities in 1885. Four laws protecting civil liberties were passed between 1930 and 1957 when the anti-miscegenation statute was repealed.

  8. Separate but equal - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the 1930 census, black people were 42% of Florida's population, [3] ... Ferguson as a custom de jure racial segregation enacted into law.

  9. Self-segregation - Wikipedia

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    Self-segregation and segregation in general usually lead's to inter-ethnic violence between different ethnic, racial or religious groups. Instances of this can be seen worldwide in places which have a degree of ethnic or religious diversity within them, famous examples of this are the Troubles and sectarian conflict in Iraq between Sunnis and Shia's and general religiously motivated riots in ...