whites only
Jim Crow sign
Whites only is a designation that appeared on signs, policies, and facilities during racial segregation, restricting access to white people and excluding Black people and other racial minorities.
The phrase is most associated with Jim Crow laws in the American South and apartheid in South Africa: The lunch counter had a "whites only" sign.
Now used historically or to describe continuing de facto segregation.
- segregationForced separation by group
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
- apartheidRacial separation policy
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
colored · separate · signs · drinking fountain · racism · fountains · bathrooms · buses · South · exclusion · boycott · lunch counter · Rosa Parks · prejudice · poll tax · barrier · divide · front door
- Jim CrowJim Crow laws, separate but equal, segregation laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, poll tax
- exclusionexclude, excluded, rule out, banned, bans
whites onlyintegrated
Combined into a whole
desegregated · equal access · inclusive · unrestricted · mixed
whites onlyintegration
Combining into a whole
racial equality · desegregation · civil rights · multiracial · color-blind
white, only, whiter, whitest, whiten, whitened, whitening, whiteness, whitish