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
  • As pools began to desegregate across the country, many Black swimmers were met with contention.
    Andre Toran, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2021
  • 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

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