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'''Racial segregation''' is the division of a population of a country on grounds of race. The segregation can be social, economic, legal and spatial. The most thorough system of racial segregation in recent times was the [[apartheid]] system of [[South Africa]] between 1948 and 1994.
 
'''Racial segregation''' is the division of a population of a country on grounds of race. The segregation can be social, economic, legal and spatial. The most thorough system of racial segregation in recent times was the [[apartheid]] system of [[South Africa]] between 1948 and 1994.
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Segregation in US public schools was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education.
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[[Category:Racism]]
 
[[Category:Racism]]
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