Segregation is the official practice of separating people, usually people of different sexes, races, or religions. Racial segregation is, within the same nation or country, the physical separation of people according to racist criteria, in everyday activities, in professional life, in the exercise of civil rights. After the proclamation of emancipation abolished slavery in the southern United States, racial discrimination was governed by the Jim Crow laws which imposed a strict segregation of "races". Although these laws were instituted just after the end of the American Civil War, in most cases they were formalized only after the end of Republican-led Reconstruction in the 1870 and 1880 during the period known as "Nadir American racial relations. "This legal segregation took place until the 1960, mainly because of the considerable influence of conservatives in the south.
