Based on the image above, what do you think segregation means?


Seg·re·ga·tion
ˌseɡrəˈɡāSH(ə)n/
noun
noun: segregation
the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.
  • the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.
    "an official policy of racial segregation"
Schools for black students were underfunded, staffed, and over crowded.  But in 1954, the Supreme Court decided that separate was not equal, and the process of integration began...
After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment made Slavery illegal, but many people did not want to interact with black people in our country.  They got around treating them equally by creating laws that segregated, or separated black and white people.  What are some ways you have heard that people were segregated?

In many parts of the United States public schools were segregated by race, or the color of students.  States said that even though schools were 'separate' they were still 'equal'.  But they were not equal. 
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