Sociology / Unit 7 Soc 1064 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Segregation: De Jure and De Facto
Captions available
The idea
De jure segregation is separation required by law; de facto segregation is separation that persists through other factors once the law no longer requires it.
In practice
Jim Crow laws were de jure; residential separation by neighborhood after those laws fell is de facto.
Where people slip
Ending a law ends the requirement, and it does not by itself end the pattern the law created.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it · Sources for Sociology