How to Use desegregation in a Sentence

desegregation

noun
  • Midlo, who died in 1978, was a civil rights lawyer active in labor issues and in desegregation.
    Jeff Adelson, NOLA.com, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The moment is one that many historians believe helped launch the desegregation movement in the US.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN, 21 Dec. 2020
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jim Crow laws and, at one point in the mid-1960s, ran a story exposing a secret plan by the mayor of Pine Bluff to avert desegregation of the city fire department.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2021
  • This is where she was bused to, sometimes under police escort, from her South End home as part of the tumultuous desegregation of the city’s schools during the 1970s.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2021
  • This one is the story of the 1974 desegregation of Boston schools and the tragic consequences for many families.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The Star failed to report on the growing civil rights movements and fight against desegregation and continued to do so even as the staff diversified in the 1960s.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Lemon Grove in 1931 was the location of the nation’s first successful school desegregation case.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The rollout of the decision was slow, and only a year later the Supreme Court heard arguments by schools that complained of the burden brought on by desegregation.
    Peter Aitken, Fox News, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Research has also shown that desegregation doesn’t worsen outcomes for white students.
    Fabiola Cineas, Vox, 15 May 2024
  • Growing up, Senna shuttled between her parents’ households, attending public school in the midst of Boston’s desegregation crisis.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024

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