Oldham, where the school is planned, has a recent history of racial segregation.
Hundreds of districts have created specialized "magnet" schools as a way to cut down on racial segregation in their schools.
Apartheid was the nation's system of legalized racial segregation that was enforced by the National Party government between 1948 and 1994.
And politicians believe that every problem in society, from religious and racial segregation to obesity and laziness, has a solution involving schools.
Host Mark Ruffin of Sirius XM recalled the dignity displayed by the African-American bassist as the Brubeck quartet challenged racial segregation in the 1950s.
Considered the founding father of South Africa's democracy, Mandela became an international figure when he endured 27 years in prison for fighting racial segregation.
Liberals counter that the law must evolve with social norms, else judges would still be enforcing unconstitutional concepts like racial segregation and sexual discrimination.
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This movement is not consciously race-based, but it is certainly creating a two-tiered system and that inevitably leads to racial segregation as well as class segregation.
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Du Bois composed his text during Jim Crow, a time of official racial segregation that deliberately obscured to the wider world the human details of African-American life.
Johnson championed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an act outlawing racial segregation in American institutions and paving the way for an African-American to be nominated for president.
In the 1970s and 1980s, issues such as affirmative action and school busing still riled up many, but de jure racial segregation was no longer considered acceptable by most.
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.
Brandeis, however, showed how it could be done: by deploying solid masses of sociological fact (a method that led, for example, to the 1954 Brown ruling that racial segregation was unconstitutional).
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The notion of prohibiting racial segregation was incredibly contentious.
Years before the name became synonymous with racial segregation laws, Jim Crow was a showbiz act a performance first made famous in New York City by a young white actor named Thomas D.
Maybe this resonates more deeply for taking place in the South, where many leading newspapers once staunchly defended racial segregation in a way that is now embarrassing -- and which prompted some of them to apologize decades later.
Back then, the inventively trashy filmmaker John Waters was having campy fun with early-'60s hair and fashion, and with his cross-dressing hausfrau, but he was also dressing down a certain set of early-'60s attitudes about conformity and racial segregation.
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