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desegregate

verb as in eliminate segregation

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When Southern governors refused to desegregate schools during Jim Crow is now widely understood as one of the most shameful periods in our history.

From Salon

Board of Education when Southern governors refused to desegregate schools and President Eisenhower, who didn't love the Brown v.

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American politics was ablaze following the Supreme Court's decision to desegregate schools.

From BBC

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt desegregated the Army after World War II. Later, women were given broader roles, including, now, in combat.

For guidance, the justices can look to the very beginning of Medicare in the 1960s, when the promise of federal funding finally persuaded hospitals in the Jim Crow South to desegregate.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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