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The Plain man's religion in the Middle Ages (1916) pamphlet; The Case for Compulsory Military Service (1917) Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation (1918) Christ, St Francis and To-Day (1919) The Roman Catholic Church and the Bible. Some Historical Notes (1921) booklet; Monasticism: Its Cause and Effects.
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.
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.
Segregation continued even after the demise of the Jim Crow laws. Data on house prices and attitudes towards integration suggest that in the mid-20th century, segregation was a product of collective actions taken by Whites to exclude Black people from their neighborhoods. [65]
This meant that even parents without racial prejudice tended to seek middle class or better residential neighborhoods in seeking the best schools for their children. As a result, efforts to impose court-ordered desegregation often led to school districts with too few White students for effective desegregation, as White students increasingly ...
The most important example of this use of the Middle Ages was the nation-building that surrounded the unification of Germany. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Narratives which presented the nations of Europe as modernizing by building on, yet also developing beyond, their medieval heritage, were also important facets underpinning justifications of European ...
Occupational segregation, the distribution of people based upon demographic characteristics, most often gender, both across and within occupations and jobs; Age segregation, separation of people based on their age and may be observed in many aspects of some societies; Health segregation. Segregation by health condition.
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