It was America's apartheid system. In 1954, the United States Supreme Court ruled that it had no place in the nation's public schools. Great moral leaders, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., and political leaders, such as President Lyndon Johnson, railed against it. It is often called Jim Crow.
I speak, of course, about segregation--an American system of legalized separation of the races,
one in which blacks, and other groups of color, were subjected to po