desegregate

Yvonne Lee Odom helped desegregate public schools in the 1960s, becoming the first black student to attend public school in Delray Beach, Florida.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

Since his appointment in 2017, Saudi Arabia has reined in its religious police, lifted a ban on women driving, allowed restaurants and cafes to desegregate by gender and promoted cinema and music events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

At 14, she was one of the so-called Clinton 12, the first Black students to desegregate a Southern public school following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2025

About 67 years ago, she and eight other courageous teenagers courageously walked into school, cementing themselves in history as the firsts to desegregate schools in the South.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2024

The international audience, and their opinion of US racial problems, were beginning to matter—a lot—to American leaders, and concern for their opinion influenced Truman’s 1947 decision to desegregate the military through Executive Order 9981.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Whether or not Lovett ever caves in to the pickets and desegregates, the diocese has already been bitterly divided by the situation, and it may take years for the ill will to dissolve.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sure enough, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare last month threatened to withhold federal funds from Ohio's Antioch College unless the school desegregates its blacks-only Afro-American Studies Institute, which opened last fall.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a young man, he attended a newly desegregated high school in Terre Haute and was friendly with students of all colors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

That’s the story of when the public transportation system was desegregated to allow African Americans to ride anywhere they wanted to ride on the bus system.

From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024

In the late 1970s, Seattle voluntarily desegregated its schools by busing students across town.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

By the time he finished, the three teams had reported back that the restaurants were indeed desegregated.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

And the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare used the leverage those funds provided to press schools into desegregating.

From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2025

The original song, written by Paul McCartney, is reportedly an ode to Little Rock Nine's bravery in desegregating schools in Arkansas during the late '60s.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2024

Closing the libraries would have been eerily similar to the history across the U.S. of closing swimming pools rather than desegregating them, Halpern said.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

He also liked the idea of desegregating queer history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

As the new minister at the Church of Christ on Texas and Clements streets on the Southside, he undertook the challenge of desegregating the schools and obliterating the boundary of the railroad tracks.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger