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March on Washington segregated lunch counter segregated water cooler protesting racial segregation
Black and white image of the Greensboro Sit-In, in which young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter.
racial segregation racially restricted beach in apartheid-era South Africa Black and white sign reading Pretoria, suburban station for non-whites, displayed in the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa as part of a segregation exhibit.
Video thumbnail image shows Black South African schoolchildren standing behind a fence.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (center), with other civil rights supporters lock arms on as they lead the way along Constitution Avenue during the March on Washington, Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
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Racial segregation: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Article title updated for style. Nov 07, 2026
Modified link of Web site: PBS - American Experience - Freedom Riders. Oct 25, 2026
Add new Web site: Social Welfare History Project - Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation. Aug 28, 2026
Add new Web site: Centre for Economic Policy Research - Racial segregation and Southern lynching. Dec 05, 2025
Add new Web site: University of South Carolina - Scholar Commons - The Architecture of Racial Segregation: The Challenges of Preserving the Problematical Past (PDF). Jul 11, 2025
Add new Web site: Cambridge Core - Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching. May 16, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Wisconsin-Madison - Institute for Research on Poverty - A history of residential segregation in the United States (PDF). Dec 20, 2024
Add new Web site: PNAS - Estimating experienced racial segregation in US cities using large-scale GPS data. Sep 10, 2024
Media added. Jun 26, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Racial Segregation and Equality. Feb 13, 2024
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The Changing Bases of Segregation in the United States. Jul 18, 2023
Add new Web site: Frontiers - Segregation and Life Satisfaction. Apr 25, 2023
Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Racial Segregation of Black People in Canada. Aug 18, 2022
Replaced photograph. Nov 08, 2021
Media added. Jan 14, 2020
Cross-references added. Aug 28, 2019
Media added. Apr 25, 2019
Corrected display issue. Apr 26, 2018
Media added. Mar 22, 2018
Add new Web site: PBS - American Experience - Freedom Riders. Jan 27, 2017
Add new Web site: PBS - American Experience - Freedom Riders. Jan 27, 2017
Add new Web site: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Segregation. Jul 31, 2016
Added photo of segregated water cooler. Feb 05, 2015
Media added. Dec 09, 2008
Added new Web site: The Library of Congress - Racial Segregation. Apr 04, 2007
Added new Web site: Fredonia State University - College of Law - Racial Segregation. Apr 04, 2007
Added new Web site: Buzzle.com - Calligraphy. Apr 04, 2007
Media added. Jul 27, 2006
Article revised. Dec 17, 2004
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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