desegregate

Example Sentences

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It was not until 1948 that the armed forces were desegregated though an executive order issued by President Harry S. Truman, although racial strife in the services continued through the Cold War and beyond.

From New York Times

After every major league desegregated, the idea of winning had begun to trump something as pedestrian as color.

From Salon

The group sees the name change as a way to restore South Carolina as the cradle of the movement to desegregate public education.

From Seattle Times

A few years after Osborne graduated, the School Board began crafting a plan for mandatory integration, conceding that voluntary efforts weren’t proving effective and desperate to head off a federal court order to desegregate.

From Seattle Times

Here in Seattle, the national wave to desegregate led to a grand voluntary experiment in busing students to different neighborhood schools across the city.

From Seattle Times