How to Use desegregate in a Sentence

desegregate

verb

• Eventually the city's schools desegregated.
• The city’s lunch counters were the first in the South to desegregate.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
• There was the house of the lawyer who tried the case to desegregate Dallas schools.
  — Maggie Kelleher, Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2021
• The last straw may have come when the group sued to desegregate two school districts.
  — Jeff Amy, The Seattle Times, 30 Oct. 2018
• In fact, the Palmetto State was one of the last states in the country to desegregate schools.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 28 May 2024
• Woolworth’s in Alamo Plaza had become the first lunch counter in the South to desegregate in 1960.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2018
• In his youth, Lewis applied to the school in an attempt to desegregate it.
  — Tribune News Service, al, 17 July 2021
• Unlike in the Deep South, there were no lunch counters to desegregate, no bus seats to claim.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
• Across the country in the 1970s, courts were ordering schools to desegregate.
  — Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 30 June 2019
• My high school was one of the first ones in Mississippi to desegregate.
  — Mathew Brownstein, New York Times, 13 July 2023
• The governor sent state troopers to surround the schools set to desegregate in Huntsville.
  — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2020
• Though the military was beginning to desegregate, many in the Navy still thought of Black men as stewards and cooks.
  — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• Phase one, perform sit-ins at white lunch counters and picket stores that refuse to desegregate.
  — Shannon Rae Green, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2022
• Courts could not order a school to desegregate unless someone asked them to do so.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Out of Green and the many cases that followed it, the Supreme Court built a complex and versatile set of rules for desegregating schools.
  — Will Stancil, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2018
• And just like me, Kamala and Ruby were also on the front lines of our nation’s battle to desegregate our schools.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• The moment was the culmination of years of work from civil rights activists to desegregate the park.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
• At the time, the city was facing a school busing crisis, one that began in 1974 with a court order to desegregate its public schools.
  — Breeanna Hare, CNN, 1 Aug. 2021
• Northam was 12 when the schools in his county desegregated.
  — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
• The mass movement to desegregate schools, voters rights, etc.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2020
• In May 1954, just as the Supreme Court ruled to desegregate public schools, the artist finally finished his research.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2020
• The Big Ten was already desegregated by 1966 and Kentucky didn’t recruit him until late in the process.
  — Joe Mussatto, ajc, 29 Sep. 2017
• On Tuesday, students again tried to desegregate the bowling alley, and again were turned away.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
• The comments come as some Asian groups have protested Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new plan to desegregate city schools.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 8 June 2018
• The closure lasted five years, until the Supreme Court ordered the county schools to reopen and desegregate.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2020
• Schools were ordered, by the state, to desegregate in 1965, but only by multiple choice.
  — Arkansas Online, 20 Feb. 2021
• As a child in the 1970s, Janey was bused to class, sometimes under police escort, as part of Boston's fraught attempt to desegregate schools.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2021
• This is not like an injunction to reform a prison or desegregate a school system.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 30 Jan. 2017
• At the time, many school districts in the South, which had clearly violated Brown, were still under court order to desegregate.
  — Michelle Adams, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
• Court oversight has vanished When Brown was decided in 1954, the Court didn’t immediately require school districts to desegregate.
  — Fabiola Cineas, Vox, 15 May 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024