Federal segregation

Date and country of first publication

2013
United States

Definition

Federal segregation is the practice of separating individuals or groups based on their race, ethnicity, or other characteristics by the federal government. This practice has been widely condemned as discriminatory and harmful, and many efforts have been made to combat and eliminate segregation in all its forms.

Federal segregation appears in the following literature

Yellin E.S. (2013). Racism in the nation's service: Government workers and the color line in Woodrow Wilson's America. Racism in the Nation's Service: Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America, 1-301. University of North Carolina Press.https://doi.org/

Plant R.J., Clarke F.M. (2015). "The crowning insult": Federal segregation and the gold star mother and widow pilgrimages of the early 1930s. Journal of American History, 102(2), 406-432. Oxford University Press.https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav351