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English: Map of the United States, showing school segregation laws before the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education. Red means that segregation was required in that state. Blue states either allowed segregation in schools, but did not require it, or segregation was limited. Green states forbade segregation in schools.
Rich Benjamin's book, Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America, reveals the state of residential, educational, and social segregation. In analyzing racial and class segregation, the book documents the migration of white Americans from urban centers to small-town, exurban, and rural communities.
United States racial desegregation case law (1 C, 35 P) Urban decay in the United States (4 C, 62 P) Pages in category "History of racial segregation in the United States"
Redlining is part of how white communities in America maintained some level of racial segregation. It is the practice of denying or increasing the cost of services, such as mortgages, banking, insurance, access to jobs, [ 136 ] access to health care, or even supermarkets [ 137 ] to residents in certain, often racially determined, [ 138 ] areas.
Pages in category "African-American segregation in the United States" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Racial segregation" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total.
In 1960, U.S. marshals were needed to escort Ruby Bridges to and from school in New Orleans, Louisiana, as she broke the State of Louisiana's segregation rules. School segregation in the United States was the segregation of students in educational facilities based on their race and ethnicity. While not prohibited from having or attending ...