USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Segregation is the action of separating people, historically on the basis of race and/or gender. Segregation implies the physical separation of people in everyday activities, in professional life, and in the exercise of civil rights.

Detailed explanation-2: -Segregation is the practice of requiring separate housing, education and other services for people of color. Segregation was made law several times in 18th-and 19th-century America as some believed that Black and white people were incapable of coexisting.

Detailed explanation-3: -Segregation of facilities included separate schools, hotels, bars, hospitals, toilets, parks, even telephone booths, and separate sections in libraries, cinemas, and restaurants, the latter often with separate ticket windows and counters.