Mandated racial segregation

2016
united states

Mandated racial segregation refers to laws and policies that require the separation of different racial or ethnic groups in public spaces, institutions, and facilities. These laws were particularly prevalent in the United States during the Jim Crow era, where African Americans and other minority groups were legally required to use separate schools, transportation, bathrooms, and other public facilities from white Americans. These laws were enforced through legal statutes, as well as social norms and practices that upheld and perpetuated racial discrimination and inequality. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s led to the dismantling of many of these segregation laws, but the legacy of mandated racial segregation continues to impact American society to this day.

Further reading

Mann B.; Rogers A. (2021) "Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever? Racial and Economic Isolation and Dissimilarity in Rural Black Belt Schools in Alabama*", Rural Sociology, 86(3), pp. 523-558. Rural Sociological Society. DOI: 10.1111/ruso.12384

Cooper P.J. (2016) "Civil rights in public service", Civil Rights in Public Service, 1-628. Taylor and Francis. DOI: 10.4324/9781315719566