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Mahalia Jackson visited Montgomery, Ala., to help mark the first anniversary of that black community’s remarkably successful campaign to desegregate city buses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

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

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

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 ● Feb. 19, 2025

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

Supreme Court desegregated the nation’s schools in Brown v.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2024

Near the entrance, a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln commemorates the founding of the desegregated cemetery in the late ’20s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

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 ● Jun. 16, 2023

The day before the election, a downtown art movie theater had its first desegregated screening.

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

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

Stern mostly avoided topical poems, but he was a longtime political activist whose causes included desegregating a swimming pool in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and organizing an anti-apartheid reading at the University of Iowa.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 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