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

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

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

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

Disney’s 2000 sports drama was based on the real story of Herman Boone, a Black football coach who was installed as head coach at the desegregated T.C.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

Law led the civil rights campaign that peacefully desegregated the city’s schools, stores and restaurants in 1963.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 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

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

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

The university later celebrated Foster’s legacy, her role in desegregating the institution and her bravery.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 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