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
Living in Atlanta in the ’60s and ’70s, she fought for voting rights and school desegregation.
From Slate • Dec. 23, 2025
White enrollment was 55% in 1963 — when the first school desegregation suit was filed — and 37% white in 1976 as the busing dispute peaked.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 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
“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
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