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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 26 August 2024 and 16 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Domainbamem, Ahewling, Csclark14, Ginger7104 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Kpcw24 (talk) 19:36, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Ahewling @ahewling: I prompted ChatGPT about which of these is accurate: A) Segregation is not limited to areas in the Deep South. In New York City, 19 out of 32 school districts *have* fewer white students or B) Segregation is not limited to areas in the Deep South. In New York City, 19 out of 32 school districts *had* fewer white students

It responded: The correct option would be:

"Segregation is not limited to areas in the [[Deep South]]. In New York City, 19 out of 32 school districts have fewer white students."

This is because the verb "have" indicates a present, ongoing situation, which is appropriate if you're describing current data or a continuing trend. The use of "had" would suggest that this was the case in the past but is not necessarily true now.

Would it be possible for you to reverse or correct your edit? It should be "have" not "had." sheridanford (talk) 22:04, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fewer white students?

Since the edit of 06:23, 18 July 2018, there has been a claim that

19 out of 32 school districts [in New York City] have [or had] fewer white students ...

It seems that this is supposed to indicate that the schools (or "school districts"?) are segregated.

I had some trouble getting my head around this logic. So like, 49% white students would indicate it's segregated (and 51% would not)? Credit to User:021120x for calling this out with the 10 October 2022 edit adding a {{clarification needed}}.)

So I, too, am calling this out and leaving it for others to fix. Fabrickator (talk) 02:10, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Racial segregation in the United States included the legally or socially enforced separation of African Americans from White Americans, as well as the separation of other ethnic minorities from majority communities. Facilities and services such as housing, healthcare, education, employment and transportation in the United States have been systematically separated based on racial categorizations. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), so long as "separate but equal" facilities were provided, a requirement that was rarely met. The doctrine's applicability to public schools was unanimously overturned in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), and several landmark cases including Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964) further ruled against racial segregation, helping to bring an end to the Jim Crow laws. During the civil rights movement, de jure segregation was formally outlawed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, while de facto segregation continues today in areas including residential segregation and school segregation, as part of ongoing racism and discrimination in the United States. This photograph, taken in 1939 by Russell Lee, shows an African-American man drinking at a water dispenser, with a sign reading "Colored", in a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City.

Photograph credit: Russell Lee; restored by Adam Cuerden

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