desegregation

Example Sentences

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Those divisions boiled over during the busing crisis, with South Boston High School becoming the center of racial strife as black students were bused to the school under a court-ordered desegregation plan.

From Seattle Times

That includes Richmond, where some Democrats are as obsessed by race, and as unpleasant, as were their predecessors when implementing “massive resistance” to school desegregation.

From Washington Post

He did not hide that the "radical social experimentation" he decried was desegregation.

From Salon

However, in a bid to keep the city White after desegregation in the early 1970s, Richmond annexed land south of the James.

From Washington Post

From the teaching of evolution in the 1920s to the push for school desegregation in the 1950s, schools have often been a nexus for major societal conflicts.

From New York Times