Dictionary definition: de facto segregation

Article: Can state constitutional provisions eliminate de ...
The Journal of Negro Education;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... compel a state to eliminate de facto segregation in public schools. It first ... s refusal to find that de facto segregation violates the Equal Protection ... Connecticut Supreme Court held that de facto segregation violates the state constitution ...

Article: Integration and de facto segregation in ...
College Student Affairs Journal;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Honan, 1996). With so much attention given to de facto segregation in undergraduate housing at such schools, comparatively ... effects on students. The dearth of research on de facto segregation in campus housing is surprising considering the ...

Article: Fifty Years after Brown vs. Board of Education De ...
Journal of the National Medical Association;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... most medical/specialty societies. Key words: de facto segregation * NMA * catch 22 * representation As the country ... we are far from a completed society. In fact, de facto segregation exists in most state, regional and national medical ...

Article: Segregation -- In parts of rural South, a system of de ...
Yakima Herald-Republic;  March 17, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... the rural South decades ago just as the gavel fell on court-ordered integration. They created a dual system of de facto segregation that still thrives - public schools for blacks, private schools for whites. "There was never any integration ...

Article: EDITORIAL: De facto segregation approved by ...
University Wire;  May 3, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... individual by another. Discrimination is often institutionalized and indirect. In this decision, the Supreme Court allows for de facto discrimination -- it acknowledges discrimination exists, but adopts the attitude that nothing can be done about it. Members ...

Article: De Facto
West's Encyclopedia of American Law;      412 words ... ... distinguished from a mere paper blockade. A de facto corporation is one that has been given legal ... challenge the validity of the existence of a de facto corporation. De facto segregation is the separation of members of different races ...

Encyclopedia entry: Segregation, De Facto
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States;      567 words ... ... judicial decrees is known as de facto segregation . Such segregation is typically ... used the term “de facto segregation” in Swann v ... schools as ways in which de facto segregation was a function of state action ...