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While legal segregation remains history, few White and minority students share a classroom.
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At that time, senators from the Southern states were still staunchly defending legal segregation and disfranchisement of Afro-Americans.
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A Baptist pastor and civil rights activist, King worked to end legal segregation of blacks in the United States.
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The reckoning needs to be deeper, grappling with a legacy of economic disadvantages from slavery through legal segregation, he said.
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If the courts could be persuaded to understand the Constitution differently, legal segregation might well be found to be unconstitutional.
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Finally, life in an urban ghetto, though lacking the humiliation of legal segregation, had brought another harsh reality into Afro-American life.
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However, there was a growing concerted effort to destroy legal segregation because it was a serious blemish on this democratic image.
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In addition to the legal segregation codes was the daily etiquette whites demanded, unwritten codes that, if not followed, could be deadly.
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The Civil Rights Movement had, no matter what its critics said of it, accomplished one sweeping victory-thedestruction of legal segregation in the United States.