desegregate

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

Since his appointment in 2017, Saudi Arabia has reined in its religious police, lifted a ban on women driving, allowed restaurants and cafes to desegregate by gender and promoted cinema and music events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

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

It required federal litigation to desegregate the public golf course and the city’s airport.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2024

Attorney General Robert Kennedy had given Southern theater owners an ultimatum: desegregate voluntarily—now—or the federal government would do it for them.

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

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

This year marks 75 years since the U.S. military desegregated, and the numbers still aren’t where they should be, according to the panel of prestigious Black officers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 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 hospital had long been desegregated by this point.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

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

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

What struck me most was the scope of success they had in desegregating the North in battles that are largely forgotten but were clearly foundational for the later mass movement in the South.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 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