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Recent Examples of desegregate
The last surviving member of a trio of African American youths who were the first to desegregate the undergraduate student body at North Carolina’s flagship public university in the 1950s.
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Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
That remedy would necessarily involve busing students to desegregate the metropolitan area’s schools.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Feb. 2025
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
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Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
That remedy would necessarily involve busing students to desegregate the metropolitan area’s schools.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Feb. 2025
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
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“Desegregate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desegregate. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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