Desegregation

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Drinking water fountain in Halifax , North Carolina . Recorded in 1938.

Desegregation refers to the abolition of segregation , especially the so-called " racial segregation ".

In the United States desegregation took place in the 1960s as a result of mass protests and the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education . In the Republic of South Africa , desegregation only began in the mid-1990s after the end of apartheid policy .

Desegregation has been a major issue in the United States in the military and schools. In the Republic of South Africa, desegregation also plays an important role in urban development.

See also

• Institutionalized Discrimination
• Integration (sociology)
• Civil rights movement

literature

• Martin Gnad: Desegregation and new segregation in Johannesburg after the end of apartheid , Institute of Geography at Kiel University, 2002, ISBN 3923887477 , ISBN 9783923887477