THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER AND THE COLD WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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de facto segregation
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de jure segregation
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Latin phrase “de jure” literally means “according to the law.” The Jim Crow Laws of the U.S. southern states from the late 1800s into the 1960s and the South African apartheid laws that separated Black people from White people from 1948 to 1990 are examples of de jure segregation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Regulated by state law, miscegenation was illegal in many states for decades. However, interracial marriage in the United States has been fully legal in all U.S. states since the 1967 Supreme Court decision, Loving v. Virginia, that decreed all state anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional.
Detailed explanation-3: -Judicial rulings and legislation passed during the era of the Civil Rights Movement ended de jure segregation, separation that was mandated by law and enforced by the government. But de facto segregation-separation that exists even though laws do not require it-persists to the present day.
Detailed explanation-4: -The decisionrested on a critical distinction in constitutional law between “de jure” segregation-resulting from purposeful discrimination by the government-and “de facto” racial imbalance de rived from unintentional or “fortuitous” actions by state and private entities.