Examples of segregated in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web How could the schools in a city dominated by the left and led by Mayor Bill de Blasio, a progressive standard-bearer, be more segregated than those in states where Jim Crow laws once reigned and Confederate monuments still stand? — Eva Moskowitz, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2021 Chicago, perhaps the most segregated city in the U.S., was a ground zero for the war on drugs; for decades, whole swaths of the city had been torn apart by draconian drug laws that seemed to apply only to black residents. — Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2021 Last year, in a report that renewed calls for reparations to be paid to Tulsa’s massacre survivors and their descendants, Human Rights Watch painted a sobering picture of what remains a segregated city. — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021 Finally, Montgomery comes in at number nine for most segregated city in America. — Tandra Smith | Tsmith@al.com, al, 23 Feb. 2021 One of the best things is that Pine Bluff's old-line leadership is now working well with Black leaders in what was once among the state's most segregated cities. — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 21 Feb. 2021 Gadsden was walking around Birmingham, Alabama—then the most segregated city in the United States—when his curiosity drew him near the crowds of a protest organized by Martin Luther King Jr. — Myles Poydras, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2020 Austin is one of the most economically segregated cities in the country, according to a 2015 analysis by the Martin Prosperity Institute, then part of the University of Toronto. — Elizabeth Findell, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2020 In 1956, when the interstate highway act passed, Phoenix was a segregated city. — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 19 Nov. 2020

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