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De facto |
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De facto Existing in actual fact although not by official recognition. |
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| One funding source is discouraging the practice of holding units for specific groups -- such as teachers, firefighters or police -- because it may result in de facto segregation if the workers' ethnic makeup does not match the overall makeup of the community, she said. Or to put it more accurately, Williams enables the players in this important history to narrate their tale and in so doing they tell a story that reaches back to the Great Depression era of de jure segregation and spans the postwar decades of increasing de facto segregation. This success also disbanded an African-American community with roots spanning three centuries and ended the de facto segregation of Norco. |
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