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de facto segregation

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Noun1.de facto segregation - segregation (especially in schools) that happens in fact although not required by law
separatism, segregation - a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups


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brand of apartheid, which included legal and de facto segregation.
There’s a strangely charming scene early in Sweet Land of Liberty, part of a passage detailing the de facto segregation faced by black travelers in the North during the ’40s and ’50s.
Partly in response to racist housing covenants and, later, to de facto segregation that continues to this day, African-American artists in Watts formed a tight-knit, self-nurturing community that has played a central role in the social, religious, and educational life of the area.
 
 
 
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