History of racial segregation in the United States

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 193. Chapters: Ku Klux Klan, Racial segregation, Woodrow Wilson, Chinese Exclusion Act, Bob Jones University, Executive Order 9066, Plessy v. Ferguson, Tulsa race riot, Miscegenation, Anti-miscegenation laws, Military history of Asian Americans, Racial segregation in the United States, African American Historic Places, Military history of African Americans, George Wallace, Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era, Jim Crow laws, List of Jim Crow law examples by State, Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War, Baseball color line, Indian reservation, John Lewis, Nadir of American race relations, Racial steering, Maniac Magee, The New Jim Crow, Sylvia Mendez, Orville L. Hubbard, Segregated prom, Black flight, Black Codes, Black players in American professional football, The Buffalo Saga, International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Half-Breed Tract, Blockbusting, Moulin Rouge Hotel, Mendez v. Westminster, Educational segregation in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Wilberforce Colony, History of African Americans in the Canadian Football League, Black Belt, Leon Gilbert, Propaganda for Japanese-American internment, Victor H. Green, Shelley v. Kraemer, Coleman Manufacturing Company, Restrictive covenant, Sundown town, 1941 Harvard¿Navy lacrosse game, Autherine Lucy, Vincent Stanislaus Waters, Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children, John Howard Ferguson, Fisk University protest, White primaries, Dick Rowland, Camp Lejeune Incident, List of segregationists during the American Civil Rights Movement, Shelley House (St. Louis, Missouri), Custodial Detention Index, Atlanta Exposition, Erskine Declaration, Literacy test, Lemon Grove Incident, Benign neglect, Gold roll, Tape v. Hurley, Amalgamation, Black Theater of Ardmore, The Quorum, National Black Political Assembly, The Fairgrounds Park Riot, Magnet Schools Assistance Program, Darlings of Rhythm. Excerpt: Miscegenation (Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, and procreation. The term miscegenation has been used since the 19th century to refer to interracial marriage and interracial sex, and more generally to the process of racial admixture, which has taken place since ancient history. The term entered historical records during European colonialism since the Age of Discovery, but societies such as China and Japan also had restrictions on marrying with peoples they considered different. Historically the term has been used in the context of laws banning interracial marriage and sex, so-called anti-miscegenation laws. It is a potentially offensive word. Today, the word miscegenation is avoided by many scholars, because the term suggests an actual biological phenomenon, rather than its nature as a categorization imposed on certain relationships. The word is considered offensive by many, and other terms such as "interracial", "interethnic" or "cross-cultural" are more common in contemporary usage. The term remains in use among scholars when referring to past practices concerning multiraciality, such as anti-miscegenation laws that banned interracial marriages. In Spanish, Portuguese and French, the words used to describe the mixing of races are mestizaje, mestiçagem and métissage. These words, much older than the term miscegenation, are derived from the Late Latin mixticius for "mixed", which is also the root of the Spanish word mestizo. Portuguese also uses miscig...