User:Thispersonis

About me

Ninja

This user is a NINJA!

This user is from Earth.

This user is a college student.

This user is male.

This user is straight.

This user plays the piano.

This user likes all of the colors.

This user graduated from the University of Lailah.

This user is a physician.

This user contributes using Firefox.

This user uses Google as a primary search engine.

This user loves using Google Earth.

This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know.

Beliefs

Today is 20 January 2025

This user supports recycling.

This user supports the use of wind power, solar power, and electric vehicles.

This user supports the United Nations.

Interests

This user enjoys photography.

LJ

This user maintains a LiveJournal.

This user enjoys psychedelic rock.

This user enjoys rock music.

This user is a roadfan.

This user loves to eat pizza.

Racial segregation in the United States included the legally or socially enforced separation of African Americans from White Americans, as well as the separation of other ethnic minorities from majority communities. Facilities and services such as housing, healthcare, education, employment and transportation in the United States have been systematically separated based on racial categorizations. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), so long as "separate but equal" facilities were provided, a requirement that was rarely met. The doctrine's applicability to public schools was unanimously overturned in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), and several landmark cases including Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964) further ruled against racial segregation, helping to bring an end to the Jim Crow laws. During the civil rights movement, de jure segregation was formally outlawed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, while de facto segregation continues today in areas including residential segregation and school segregation, as part of ongoing racism and discrimination in the United States. This photograph, taken in 1939 by Russell Lee, shows an African-American man drinking at a water dispenser, with a sign reading "Colored", in a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City.Photograph credit: Russell Lee; restored by Adam Cuerden