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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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One funding source is discouraging the practice of holding units for specific groups -- such as teachers, firefighters or police -- because it may result in de facto segregation if the workers' ethnic makeup does not match the overall makeup of the community, she said.
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Or to put it more accurately, Williams enables the players in this important history to narrate their tale and in so doing they tell a story that reaches back to the Great Depression era of de jure segregation and spans the postwar decades of increasing de facto segregation.
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This success also disbanded an African-American community with roots spanning three centuries and ended the de facto segregation of Norco.
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