desegregation

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The designation was rolled out as part of a 1976 desegregation program, which aimed at improving educational opportunities across the city’s schools.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2026

And this provision applies to a bunch of long-standing injunctions that have been in effect for years, including desegregation orders in the South.

From Slate • May 24, 2025

In addition to Cheney and Thompson, 18 other honorees were recognized at the Thursday ceremony, including a military doctor who improved battlefield trauma care and a civil rights leader who fought for desegregation.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2025

She and others are working on a research project about a 1914 school desegregation case backed by La Mutua that was among the earliest of its kind in the country.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

“After careful deliberation, it is my opinion that desegregation is an idea whose hour has arrived,” said Benjamin Lee Smith, the superintendent of the Greensboro public school system.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly