How to Use desegregation in a Sentence

desegregation

noun

• 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
• 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
• The president wanted the capital to chart the path for the nation on desegregation.
  — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2020
• Milliken told families seeking to avoid desegregation exactly what to do: move to a different school district.
  — Michelle Adams, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Research has also shown that desegregation doesn’t worsen outcomes for white students.
  — Fabiola Cineas, Vox, 15 May 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024