desegregate
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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
It required federal litigation to desegregate the public golf course and the city’s airport.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2024
District Court, Judge Roth had devised a clever way to desegregate the schools.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
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
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
Supreme Court desegregated the nation’s schools in Brown v.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2024
Board of Education decision that desegregated public schools in law if not in life, he realized, he says, that “there was a whole cultural and social order based upon differences between white and Black people.”
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
In the late 1970s, Seattle voluntarily desegregated its schools by busing students across town.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Dwaine pegged the start of his son’s problems to 1982, when the junior high school he went to got desegregated as a result of the fight that had taken place in the courts.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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
And desegregating lunch counters and restaurants because that's what we're best at.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2024
Tyler, 16 at the time, was in a cohort of Black students desegregating Destrehan High School in a New Orleans suburb.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
The university later celebrated Foster’s legacy, her role in desegregating the institution and her bravery.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
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
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