desegregate

Example Sentences

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The year is 1974, President Richard Nixon has just resigned, a federal judge has ordered the busing of students to desegregate the city’s public high schools, and irate White parents are raising hell.

From Washington Post

She officially desegregated the event the following year.

From Salon

Even though Lexington was in the segregated south, it was a federal facility and desegregated.

From Scientific American

Supreme Court desegregated the nation’s schools in 1954, Orange County public schools remained segregated for years afterwards.

From Seattle Times

The legislation doesn’t specify where the monument would go on the Capitol grounds, which includes several other monuments, including one honoring the nine Black students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School.

From Seattle Times