segregation

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“Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn’t the case at all,” Colvin said to the New York Times in 2009.

From Salon

Additionally, while there are separate facilities for boys and girls, the mandated age-based segregation within these facilities is not always adhered to.

From BBC

Claudette Colvin, who helped end racial segregation in the US by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person, has died.

From BBC

Betty Reid Soskin, who rose to national prominence as the National Park Service’s oldest ranger and shared her experiences of racial segregation working on the World War II home front, has died.

From Los Angeles Times

Errors in chromosome segregation are a hallmark of cancer.

From Science Daily