desegregation

Example Sentences

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Those divisions boiled over during the busing crisis, with South Boston High School becoming the center of racial strife as black students were bused to the school under a court-ordered desegregation plan.

From Seattle Times

That includes Richmond, where some Democrats are as obsessed by race, and as unpleasant, as were their predecessors when implementing “massive resistance” to school desegregation.

From Washington Post

James Madison explicitly repudiated nullification as a doctrine, Tsai said, noting that politicians used the theory to justify the expansion of slavery in the 1850s and to resist desegregation in the 1960s and 1970s.

From Salon

Modern readers used to tales of the glory of the civil rights movement may be confused by Alice’s surprise and anger, but Minnicks sensitively explores the fact that desegregation wasn’t welcomed by all Black people.

From New York Times

Supreme Court justice, after Marshall had won a Court of Appeals case that ultimately led to the desegregation of the University of Maryland Law School.

From Washington Post