desegregation

Example Sentences

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It’s the summer of 1974, the city lighted to pop as it awaits the desegregation of its public schools through court-mandated busing.

From Los Angeles Times

Public education has long been a battlefield in the U.S., from the Scopes trial to desegregation to climate change.

From Scientific American

Hochul has cast her plan for New York as an effort to help the state thrive, rather than as a tool of desegregation.

From Seattle Times

Those divisions boiled over during the busing crisis, with South Boston High School becoming the center of racial strife as black students were bused to the school under a court-ordered desegregation plan.

From Seattle Times

We stood in the courtroom where Judge Frank Johnson legalized the desegregation of busses in 1956 and signed the order authorizing the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965.

From Seattle Times