segregation policies
Mandated racial division
Segregation policies are laws or institutional rules that separate people by race, ethnicity, religion, or other characteristics.
The term most often refers to the Jim Crow laws that enforced racial separation in the American South from the 1870s through the 1960s—separate schools, restaurants, drinking fountains, bus seating.
The city's segregation policies kept Black families out of white neighborhoods.
Such policies may be de jure (written into law) or de facto (enforced through practice without formal statute).
- Plessy v. FergusonRuling allowing racial separation
- apartheidRacial separation policy
- redliningRefusing loans by neighborhood
- housing covenantsBinding property use agreements
- Brown v. Board of EducationLandmark desegregation decision
Jim Crow laws · Indian Removal Act · sundown towns · internment camps · racial hierarchy · disenfranchisement · Freedom Riders · separate but equal · white only signs · school · white flight · educational disparities · literacy tests · immigration quotas · discrimination · systemic inequality · marches · systemic racism
- Wilson EraWoodrow Wilson, League of Nations, Treaty of Versailles, Clayton Act, Paris Peace Conference
- South African Historyapartheid, Nelson Mandela, Mandela, Soweto, Sharpeville
segregation policiesdesegregation
Ending enforced group separation
segregation policiescivil rights legislation
Laws ensuring equal citizen protections
anti-discrimination laws · Civil Rights Act · equal protection · Voting Rights Act · affirmative action
segregation policiesinclusion policies
Rules promoting equal participation
open enrollment · universal access · open admissions · diversity initiatives