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    can be trace the tendency that high social class is concentrated in the part of the city where they have the opportunity to occupy "own" territory and keep others away from it‚ they can develop their own way of construction‚ their own house types‚ schools‚ services‚ and church’s. Rich people have enough power and money to build their own world by the rules they are made. As if whites ruled everything‚ which is sad to say but back then it was true. As of 2013‚ the racial dynamic of church demographics

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    segregated. A Federal judge ruled on November 20th in 1985 that city and school officials in Yonkers had ’’illegally and intentionally’’ segregated the city’s public schools and public housing along racial lines. According to the‚ Judge Leonard B. Sand of Federal District Court in Manhattan said that in his 600 page decision that the segregation that existed in the Yonkers schools resulted from actions taken since 1949 by city and school officials(Williams 1). Moreover‚ he said that these included the deliberate

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    in neighborhoods and that this practice is not incompatible with justice” (Shelby 67). Shelby states that black self-segregation is valid and compatible with justice; however‚ I believe that this statement highlights that self-segregation of the underprivileged is the only segregation compatible with justice. When the privileged‚ in this case white people‚ practice self-segregation‚ it is rather called discrimination. The lack of finance and education hinders black people from the integration into

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    Running Head: Gender-Specific Schools Gender-Specific Classrooms in Public Schools: By: Donald Gatlin ENG 1010 Cory Goehring 12-7-2014 Gender-Specific Schools Utilizing the search engine‚ EBSCO‚ I reviewed five articles pertaining to the subject of Gender segregation in public schools. The articles were published between 1999 and 2010. It was my hypothesis that though many different factors can account for test scores‚ gender-segregated

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    1954 U.S. Supreme court ruled that segregation in public schools was illegal but‚ there was widespread resistance to the ruling. In 1957 nine African American students enrolled in an all white school in Little Rock Arkansas called Central High School. On the first day of classes they arrived and were getting abused and spat on by the white students‚ also the governor Orval Faubus called the national guard to block the black students from entering the school so the president Dwight D. Eisenhower

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    Brown V. Board of Education In the early 1950’s‚ racial segregation in public schools was normal across America. Although all the schools in a given district were supposed to be equal‚ most black schools were far inferior to their white counterparts. In Topeka‚ Kansas‚ a black third-grader had to walk miles just to get to her all black elementary school. Her father‚ Oliver Brown‚ had tried to enroll her in a white elementary school but was refused. Brown went to McKinley Burnett‚ the head of Topeka’s

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    Racial Segregation

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    Racial Segregation in the United States is defined as legal or social practice of separating groups of people by custom or by law based on differences of race‚ religion‚ wealth‚ culture‚ or sexual orientation (www.worldbook.com). Segregation is usually the result of a long period of group conflict‚ with one group having more power and influence than another group. Racial segregation in its modern form started in the late 1800’s and provides a means of maintaining the economic advantages and superior

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    What Is Segregation?

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    The issue of segregation has been a prominent topic bringing up pre-existence discourse such as the case of Brown v. Board of Education where the Supreme Court declared separate but equal schools unconstitutional 60 years ago. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)‚ now acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century‚ unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. (Alex McBride

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    Segregation DBQ

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    Segregation was a highly prominent issue in the early 1950s. It was heavily enforced and integrated into one’s daily life. The education system was severely biased‚ public services often refused to attend to African Americans. For instance‚ most were forced out of their seats on buses or denied entry into restaurants‚ simply due to the color of their skin. Although this behavior was deemed unconstitutional it still continued in southern states. The ability to get away with segregation was heavily

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    Racial Segregation

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    As we walk through our schools and communities‚ we see one thing‚ segregation. Is this segregation caused by a corrupt society though? No. It is merely people living and socializing where they feel it is most affordable and comfortable. Individuals in society live to their own standards‚ producing their own living conditions. Residential segregation and school segregation are two concepts widely viewed as a result of white racism. These two notions‚ however‚ are not connected by the popular scapegoat

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