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desegregate

[dee-seg-ri-geyt] / diˈsɛg rɪˌgeɪt /
VERB
eliminate segregation
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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

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

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

Oklahoma, it declared that Oklahoma had to desegregate its law school.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

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

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

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 the late 1970s, Seattle voluntarily desegregated its schools by busing students across town.

From Seattle Times Nov. 22, 2023

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

Laurence Hurd, a Church of Christ minister, came to Odessa and galvanized the Southside minority community into demanding a desegregated school system.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

He also liked the idea of desegregating queer history.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 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

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




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