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desegregation

noun as in integration

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The court-ordered desegregation of the University of Alabama had finally reached its day of reckoning.

From Time

As a showdown loomed over the desegregation of the University of Alabama, Wallace framed the crisis as one of an over-reaching federal government.

From Time

The following school year, the district faced a $3 million shortfall, roughly the amount of money it had received annually from the state under the desegregation order.

For decades, funding from the desegregation case buoyed Benton Harbor and brought national recognition to its schools.

He insisted that the paper provide informed commentary on public affairs and thought this was especially important during the 1960s with the disputes over desegregation.

In the 1970s, conservatives who had lost the moral battle on civil rights demanded exemptions to desegregation.

The act even gave the federal government new power to enforce school desegregation through the aid to education it provided.

Surely the Goldwater debacle had demonstrated a severe shortage of ducks in the anti-desegregation ranks?

Some on the far right may sincerely believe their liberties are being threatened, but they believed that about desegregation too.

Strom responded by writing the first draft of the “Southern Manifesto,” pledging “massive resistance” to desegregation.

The second question of usage concerns the words integration and desegregation.

The local commander also arranged for the desegregation of some off-base social facilities in a effort to improve black morale.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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