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Learn about the history and legacy of segregation , the practice of requiring separate housing, education and other services for people of color. Explore the laws, court cases, movements and impacts of segregation from the 19th to the 21st century. SEGREGATION definition: 1. the policy of keeping one group of people apart from another and treating them differently…. Learn more. Learn what segregation means in law and history, and how it affects people of different races, ethnicities, and religions. Explore the cases of Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education that challenged and overturned the doctrine of separate but equal. Segregation is the act and effect that arises when one thing is separated, marginalized or separated from another, it can occur in different spheres, places, things and people, which is the one that occurs most frequently within human society.