desegregate

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Recent Examples of desegregate But those Pasadena schools were soon to be desegregated after the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Tim Deroche, Orange County Register, 28 Jan. 2025 The Black aviators included 450 pilots who trained at Moton Field in Alabama and their success led President Harry Truman to sign an Executive Order to desegregate the nation's armed forces in July 1948. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025 Recall Eisenhower's deployment of troops to desegregate Southern schools, and Kennedy's creation of the Peace Corps. Robert Costa, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2025 First federal courthouse renamed after Latino family that desegregated schools in California Denise Florez at Caló News writes about President Biden signing a bill to rename the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles as the Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez Courthouse. Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for desegregate

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“Desegregate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desegregate. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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