segregation, n.Trivia

Black American Sign Language (BASL) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) that diverged from ASL largely as a result of the segregation of schools in the American South.

The Beatles had a specific clause in their contract that stated that they would not ever have to play for a segregated audience.

Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack are widely credited with helping end segregation in Las Vegas, by refusing to perform in venues that wouldn't allow blacks.

The Pentagon has twice as many bathrooms as necessary because planners had to design the it for black and white employees, including “white” and “colored” cafeterias.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary, because when it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.