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Racial segregation
Racial segregation is characterized by separation of people of different races in daily life when both are doing equal tasks, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a rest room, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a homePrinciples to Guide Housing Policy at the Beginning of the Millennium, Michael Schill & Susan Wachter, Cityscape. Segregation may be de jure (Latin, meaning "by law")—mandated by law—or de facto (also Latin, meaning "in fact"); de facto segregation may exist even illegally.
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