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
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
The district itself was founded in 1970 amid federal desegregation orders, when residents broke away from the Jefferson County Schools and agreed to pay an extra tax.
From Salon • Sep. 19, 2024
It was, he explained, a French word for extended forums “to open lines of communication in order that all people might understand each other’s role as it relates to desegregation problems.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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