How to Use desegregation in a Sentence

desegregation

noun

• Huntsville City Schools has been under a desegregation order for 57 years.
  — al, 13 July 2020
• The desegregation of all-white universities in the South gave a glimpse of how Black lives were devalued in higher education.
  — Eddie R. Cole Special To The Washington Post, Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
• The white businessmen of Birmingham did agree to some of King’s demands, including the desegregation of lunch counters.
  — Victor Luckerson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
• And after a few months, the Nashville campaign achieved the first successful desegregation of public facilities of any major city in the South.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 30 July 2020
• The latter was the site of the 1960 sit-in that led to the desegregation of lunch counters in the South.
  — Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
• The sit-ins and school desegregation of the 1950s were winding down, and for many, that was good — and enough.
  — Kyle Sammin, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020
• The idea of a jobs guarantee or the idea of school desegregation were cresting in the mid-to-late ’60s.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
• But the roots of the conflict over desegregation in the district date back decades.
  — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 June 2021
• But the armed forces were still in the process of desegregation, and he was told that such work was off limits to Black people.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• Inadequate facilities in city schools – often seen as a legacy of white flight post school desegregation – are evidence that low-income students of color have been left behind.
  — Hardy Murphy, The Conversation, 31 July 2020
• The initial days of the school desegregation method in 1975 were met with riots.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 2 June 2022
• The second is that desegregation gave Black Tulsans more of a choice of where to live and work.
  — Carlos Moreno, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2021
• Hochul has cast her plan for New York as an effort to help the state thrive, rather than as a tool of desegregation.
  — Michael Hill, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• Stone was the lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the landmark school desegregation case.
  — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2022
• Any hiccups in the desegregation of D.C. could send the wrong signal to southern states and set progress back by years.
  — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2020
• And today marks 70 years since the decision that led to the desegregation of schools.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 May 2024
• By the time Taylor-Gentry arrived in school, the city’s desegregation plan was less than a decade old.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 Dec. 2021
• One by one — throughout the decades that ushered in desegregation, redlining and white flight — the stores shut down.
  — Amelia Pak-Harvey, The Indianapolis Star, 4 June 2021
• Then Malone, who was the youngest of the three and is sort of fresh from school desegregation and voting rights and the heart of the South, points to another aspect of the story.
  — Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2020
• Grant joined the desegregation fight in the South and narrowly escaped an attack by hiding in the trunk of her car.
  — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 5 Sep. 2023
• Their choice would go down in history as paving the way for the eventual desegregation of the U.S Armed Forces.
  — Ko Lyn Cheang, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2022
• There is no disparity in magnet schools, the bulk of which were opened in the wake of a landmark school desegregation case.
  — Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, courant.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• However, in a bid to keep the city White after desegregation in the early 1970s, Richmond annexed land south of the James.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
• There were contentious lawsuits and movements to push forward with desegregation in the Twin Cities in the years that followed the Supreme Court ruling.
  — Star Tribune, 29 Nov. 2020
• The settlement in 1984 allowed the district to choose its own method of desegregation.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2022
• The convention is a chance to show how much progress Boston has made since the 1970s when the violence of busing and school desegregation seemed to define us.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
• The agreement was announced Friday to end a desegregation order that’s been in place since 1970.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 23 May 2022
• School desegregation was fought tooth and nail by white parents and public officials in city after city, North and South, over the course of decades.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2022
• Kupchik notes that the practice of suspending students can largely be traced back to school desegregation efforts in the ’60s and ’70s.
  — Kat McKim, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2022
• The boycott ended with the partial desegregation of city buses, with the front two rows of seats reserved for White people and the last two rows for Black people.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024