desegregate

Example Sentences

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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

But it did not formally desegregate until 2013, after the student newspaper reported that Black freshmen were still being denied bids during that year’s recruitment process.

From New York Times

Hospitals only desegregated when they were threatened with the loss of federal funds from the Medicaid and Medicare programs, which were enacted in 1966.

From New York Times

The memorial plaque — and its affirmation that this and similar crimes eventually moved President Harry S. Truman to desegregate the armed forces — will be placed at the site where Hall was last seen alive.

From Washington Post