segregation laws
Legalized racial division
Segregation laws are statutes that mandate separation of people by race, ethnicity, or other characteristics in public facilities, housing, education, or transportation.
In the United States, Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation across the South from the 1870s through the 1960s: Segregation laws required separate drinking fountains, schools, and seating on buses.
South Africa's apartheid system similarly codified racial separation by law.
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- apartheidRacial separation policy
- Plessy v. FergusonRuling allowing racial separation
- redliningRefusing loans by neighborhood
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
grandfather clause · sundown towns · constitutional amendments · Supreme Court rulings · school integration · separate but equal · separate facilities · whites only · water fountains · Martin Luther King Jr. · disenfranchisement · Rosa Parks · racism · inequality · poll taxes · state statutes · lunch counter · colored
- discriminationracism, systemic discrimination, sexism, racial harassment, prejudice
- Discrimination LawsPale of Settlement
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
- racismracism, racial bias, white supremacy, racial discrimination, bigotry
- Jim Crowseparate but equal, Plessy v. Ferguson, whites only, whites only signs, poll tax
- legal historylegal history, medieval law, Roman law, Roman jurisprudence, common law
segregation lawsCivil Rights Act
Law prohibiting discrimination
desegregation orders · desegregation · civil rights legislation · Brown v. Board of Education · anti-discrimination laws