as in segregation
a former social system in South Africa in which black people and people from other racial groups did not have the same political and economic rights as white people and were forced to live separately from white people
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Scott was a pioneering Black lawmaker David Albert Scott was born in rural Aynor, South Carolina, on June 27, 1945, in the era of Jim Crow segregation.—
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Partners Waste Management and Stericycle conduct educational programs for families and visitors on segregation of waste.—
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22 Apr. 2026
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Alito said the focus of the Voting Rights Act must be to enforce the prohibition against intentional racial discrimination under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution.—
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USA Today,
30 Apr. 2026
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For decades, the Office for Civil Rights has worked to uphold students’ constitutional rights against discrimination based on disability, race, national origin and gender.—
Charles Ornstein,
ProPublica,
30 Apr. 2026
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