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Many Detroiters, myself included, are worried segregation is now returning to the city itself on the coattails of this renaissance.
And that era of terrorism, of course, was followed by segregation and decades of racial subordination and apartheid.
PV: And while we might have acknowledged his personal experience, we wouldn't have talked about how redlining and the legalized segregation of our past created the racially divided neighborhoods we live in today.
We get unbelievable segregation.
If we look at systemic racism and acknowledge that it's sown into the very fabric of who we are as a country, then we can actually do something about the intentional segregation in our schools, neighborhoods and workplaces.
This was a protest campaign against Montgomery, Alabama's segregation on their public transit system, and it began when a woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person.
Consider the fact that every eastside community in the United States was built during the era of legal segregation.
We don't live in the era of legal segregation.
We've got to get away from this model of segregation, exclusion, and cities with walls.
Well, I think the first thing that we can try to understand is that segregation is a social construct.
In looking at this, the danger of Whitopia is that the more segregation we have, the less we can look at and confront conscious and unconscious bias.
So you're really going to see an extreme segregation going on between the winners and the losers across Africa.
The draft law says that government money should not be used to collect data on racial segregation.
Residential segregation by race, which has led to blacks and whites living in very different neighborhood contexts, is a classic example of institutional racism.
One of America's best-kept secrets is how residential segregation is the secret source that creates racial inequality in the United States.
Another study found that if you could eliminate statistically residential segregation, you would completely erase black-white differences in income, education and unemployment, and reduce black-white differences in single motherhood by two thirds, all of that driven by segregation.
And in Atlanta, Georgia, Purpose Built Communities has dismantled the negative effects of segregation by transforming a crime-ridden, drug-infested public housing project into an oasis of mixed-income housing, of academic performance, of great community wellness and of full employment.
That day, nearly a quarter million people gathered on the national mall to demand an end to the discrimination, segregation, violence, and economic exclusion black people still faced across the United States.
Rustin grew up in a Quaker household, and began peacefully protesting racial segregation in high school.
It has been credited with helping pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which outlawed discriminatory voting practices.
Then, as segregation raged in much of the country, young black people helped spearhead civil rights campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s.
They were holding signs that said "I am a man," and I found that astounding, because the phrase I grew up with wasn't "I am a man," it was "I am the man," and I was amazed at how it went from this collective statement during segregation to this seemingly selfish statement after integration.
Ruby Bridges helped to end segregation in the United States.
The fact that this movie is bargain basement quality is a real shame, but back in the 1940s, that was about the only type of film made for theaters catering to Black audiences due to segregation.
I was just then beginning to see the injustice of segregation and prejudice but still had a long way to go.
The only reason The Duke Is Tops, one of several "race movies" made during the times of segregation, would be worth noting today is because it made the film debut of a 21-year-old singer named Lena Horne.
HBO's Lackawanna Blues changes that and allows this talented actress to shine as Nanny, successful entrepreneur in a world changing from segregation to integration.
Full marks for the content of this film, as a Brit I was not aware that there was segregation in the US Navy during WWII.
I think the whole sense of sex segregation in society, which can be bitter, was shown very delicately.
Rapists are in a wing of the prison that would I think be referred to as administrative segregation in a US penitentiary, along with serial killers and informants.
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