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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

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

Through his law practice, McKissick also emerged as the leader of the fight to desegregate Durham's public schools, guiding black parents through the maze of requirements devised by the school board to delay integration.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

Disney’s 2000 sports drama was based on the real story of Herman Boone, a Black football coach who was installed as head coach at the desegregated T.C.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

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 1958, thirteen school systems were desegregated; in 1960, only seventeen.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

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