Segregation signs visually divided the Deep South into racial groups through simple verbal cues, sometimes augmented with arrows or pointing fingers.

Facilities and services such as housing, healthcare, education, employment, and transportation have been systematically separated in the United States based on racial categorizations.

May 9, 2025 · See images of signs posted during the Apartheid Era in South Africa from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s that enforced racial segregation laws.

Jun 30, 2019 · Beaches, bridges, swimming pools, washrooms, cinemas, benches, parks, and even burial grounds were all segregated. There were a handful of places where segregation …

Aug 23, 2017 · Instead, the Jim Crow laws led to discrimination within almost every facet of segregated society, in ways that can still be felt today. Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, …

Dec 5, 2025 · Through nonviolent protest, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s broke the pattern of public facilities’ being segregated by “race” in the South and achieved the most …

Apr 25, 2025 · Signs reading "For Whites Only" and "For Colored Only" that were posted in a Georgia elementary school as part of a history lesson recently have sparked concern among …