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No one is going to suddenly stop hiring black people, or not allow Asians to sit at the lunch counter, or create white-only schools.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Help Draft the Federalism Restoration Amendment 2010
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And even if you could afford it, if you were born poor and black in Mississippi in the first half of the 1900s, it's very possible that you were barred from the white-only hospitals and have only anecdotal evidence of the date of your birth.
The NAACP exposes voter suppression schemes | Kay Dilday 2011
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"It was no victory for black men to be allowed to sit in a formerly white-only theater or to rent hotel accommodations which had been segregated, when they had no jobs," the historian Manning Marable has written.
Rev. Al Sharpton: Dr. King and the Living Wage Movement Today Rev. Al Sharpton 2011
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There are excellent — and I think obvious — reasons for not regarding a black fraternity as equally offensive as a white-only fraternity.
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"It was no victory for black men to be allowed to sit in a formerly white-only theater or to rent hotel accommodations which had been segregated, when they had no jobs," the historian Manning Marable has written.
Rev. Al Sharpton: Dr. King and the Living Wage Movement Today Rev. Al Sharpton 2011
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And the unions that most opposed integration – early unions were white-only.
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And no more discrimination against minorities, malapportionment of electoral districts, white-only primaries, etc.
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And no more discrimination against minorities, malapportionment of electoral districts, white-only primaries, etc.
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Not exactly the United Nations, but still: to actively pursue a policy of white-only casting would be unrealistic.
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Republicans work for their white-only, elite, rich friends who run the large corporations and industries that abuse American workers, deny us the right to healthcare, and call for our failure.
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