Ronald Reagan launched his presidential campaign in one of the strongholds of segregation, Philadelphia, Mississippi.
She also called on Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland to conduct a landmark review of segregation in housing.
The other camp favours the index of segregation, which measures how the members of an ethnic group are distributed.
Yet this meritocratic theory clashes with the reality of segregation and poverty.
The complaints often invoke images of segregation, devastated ecology pillaged by greedy capitalists or starving children denied sustenance by a de-funded welfare state.
He said that in the private sector one of the problems has been the cost of segregation, not simply the cultural objection to employing women.
"One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination, " King said.
"My guess is that in terms of segregation and intimidation this has probably contributed between 10 and 15% to the homeless figure, " said Mr McDowell.
And part of the reason for that, and I think you hear this in many African American communities, is there's this kind of romanticization of segregation.
American singer, actor and attorney Paul Robeson was taken in by the Soviet Union and proclaimed its lack of segregation was evidence of freedom's progress while millions were being murdered by Joseph Stalin in gulags.
The Thomas wing at the renovated Carnegie Library in Savannah is a nod to the era of segregation when blacks could not use the city's public library and Thomas instead spent hours at the Carnegie Library.
The commonly used index of segregation, which measures the number of people who would have to move in order to spread themselves evenly over a city, shows that every large ethnic minority group became less segregated between 1991 and 2001.
Mr. BRITTAIN: Well, that rewards the sinner, so to speak for the sins of segregation by allowing the white flight to take place, and then insulating it, like Gary said, with this kind of apartheid border between the urban district and the suburban district.
The segregation not legal, but structural and in urban planning, housing, and limited employment opportunities leads to a form of segregation of drug abuse and prohibition, one version for the wealthier people and another for those in inner cities and poor communities.
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Black men and women and children re-boarded the buses of Montgomery, newly desegregated, and sat in whatever seat happen to be open. (Applause.) And with that victory, the entire edifice of segregation, like the ancient walls of Jericho, began to slowly come tumbling down.
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Though Rosa Parks was not the first to confront the injustice of segregation laws, her courageous act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott -- 381 days of peaceful protest when ordinary men, women, and children sent the extraordinary message that second-class citizenship was unacceptable.
He is asking us to tear down the walls of segregation that divide us and to walk into the daybreak of genuine freedom and justice that President Obama's election as the nation's first black president, and his appointment as the nation's first black attorney general, so powerfully represents.
In Afrikaans their language apartheid simply means "apartness, " a benign and harmless concept, but as it came to be applied to black South Africans, it translated into a brutal system of segregation and subjugation that would last for nearly half a century and eventually subject the country to international condemnation, to economic and political pressures that would finally contribute to its demise.
The segregation of these students is reflective of both neighborhood segregation and a decision on the part of some districts to group these students together in order to provide them with qualified teachers and bilingual programs that are scarce, said Richard Fry, a senior research associate for the Pew Hispanic Center.
George Wallace and other Southern governors of his ilk stood defiantly in the 1950s and '60s in support of racial segregation, a culture of repression, violence and denial of basic human rights.
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The authors compute an index of occupational segregation, which compares the composition of employment in individual places with the national profile.
The idea of gender segregation in schools, particularly from the onset of puberty, is widely accepted in conservative Palestinian society.
Mr Feldman argues that for Black, who became one of the strongest proponents of ending segregation, the decision served as a means of freeing his legacy from Klan baggage.
Although deliberate segregation is no longer an issue, demographic trends and white flight to rich suburbs keep pushing in the direction of a de facto segregation of schools.
Thurmond ran for president as a Dixiecrat in 1948 with a platform of maintaining segregation.
Oldham, where the school is planned, has a recent history of racial segregation.
And it pointed to what it said was an increasingly worrying trend of gender segregation at student Islamic Society events.
In an excellent, comprehensive paper on the subject, Ed Glaeser and his compatriats trace the level of metropolitan segregation alongside changes in housing prices by race.
Considered the founding father of South Africa's democracy, Mandela became an international figure when he endured 27 years in prison for fighting apartheid, the country's system of racial segregation.
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Like other places in the South at the time, Texas still had pockets of racial segregation, Mauro said, and it reminded them how much work needed to be done.
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