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    Racial segregation is seen throughout major cities in America such as New York and Washington D.C where the majority of poor-income students attend public schools as opposed to upper-class students who go to private schools. “In Chicago‚ by the academic year 2000-2003

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    happen over a series of years. Let’s think back to America in the 1930’s. The white race would treat the negro race very poorly‚ there was lynching‚ false accusations of blacks‚ and public segregation. Many books about this time were written to show how racist the whites were to the blacks. Racism and segregation in the 1930’s was crueler than in the book "To Kill a Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee. Blacks and whites were kept separate in all public places at this time. Back then "in order to

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    American justice was‚ Thurgood Marshall. Thurgood Marshall made a huge impact on segregation by ending racial segregation in public schools‚ fighting for justice‚ and being appointed several times. Thurgood Marshall attended a segregated school when he was young. When he became a Supreme Court Justice he ended school segregation. According to‚ CBN‚ Marshall in 1954‚ led the legal that challenged public school segregation in the courts. The case advanced to the Supreme Courts and resulted in a landmark

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    between the black and white races. Throughout history‚ the term “separate but equal” mostly worked one way. Separate was honored‚ but equal was not. In the southern United States‚ segregation was legal in many places including restaurants‚ public schools‚ restrooms‚ and public transportation. By practicing legal segregation‚ the non-whites were forced to use second-rate facilities that were separate from the white facilities. Non-white people were treated poorly‚ because they were thought to be lower

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    It has been sixty-two years since the United States Supreme Court declared de jure segregation of schools a violation of the United States Constitution‚ and sixteen years since the Connecticut State Supreme Court declared that the de facto segregation of Hartford Public School students was denying racially segregated students an equal educational opportunity. Despite these rulings‚ a majority of public schools in Connecticut is racially segregated‚ and a large number of schools are racially hyper-segregated

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    Segregation Segregation is bad; Segregation is the separation of blacks and whites. While white men had rights black men had none. They were mostly slaves and did whatever the white men told them to do. Back then the whites were in total control over everything and decided that blacks didn’t need any rights that they were just property. They tried everything to get their rights but nothing would work. It’s not right to separate by colors‚ blacks had different schools if they even let them attend

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    are until they can afford to move to a different house. But many factors affect the prices of houses‚ the biggest being demand. The way to obtain finance is mainly through the banks‚ as they lend money to those who are potential buyers in the residential market‚ which is namely a mortgage. There are many mortgages available on the market‚ however the interest rates affect whether a person would take out a mortgage; they will be more likely to take out a mortgage that has the lowest interest rate

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    this the education of Status Indians (Metis and Inuit were put into the system later) fell under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Federal Government. During 1830’s-1900’s the Canadian government and various Christian churches created the Indian Residential School System (IRS). The IRS was a compulsory education system created to assimilate First Nation‚ eventually Metis and Inuit children through means similar to the Colonial English and the Prussian compulsory education systems. These children were

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    The argument of Vine Deloria does suggest an explanation for Ari Kelman’s observation that “Segregation—environmental‚ socioeconomic‚ racial—resulted in segregated suffering” in Hurricane Katrina. Deloria stated that the framework of Social Contract that America founded on was very limited in a sense of who gets the right to be considered a “citizen‚” indicating a sign of segregation. Indeed‚ this limited framework resulted in the struggle for those who are not included as a “citizen” of the state

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    Intergenerational Effects of Residential Schools Who are the people that went to residential schools‚ where are they‚ and their families today? Have you ever heard someone talk about residential schools like it was an everyday conversation? Residential schools have become so camouflaged into the back of people’s minds. People tend to forget that these schools took place and that they are real life events that can have an effect on everyone around them. These schools have left such an imprint

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