desegregate

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Recent Examples of desegregate Operation Breadbasket In the 1960s, the SCLC launched Operation Breadbasket, a campaign to desegregate jobs and increase employment opportunities for Black Americans. Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2026 Their subsequent arrest helped to desegregate the library. Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 17 Feb. 2026 Racial disparities in Milwaukee remain significant despite a 1976 federal court order to desegregate public schools. Alan J. Borsuk, jsonline.com, 16 Jan. 2026 Following the Supreme Court’s Brown vs Board of Education decision in 1954, Manual was the first of Kansas City’s public schools to desegregate. Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 12 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for desegregate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for desegregate
integrate
Verb
  • The score is bigger and easier to read, the bases and count are brighter and stand out more against a darker background, and the design more seamlessly integrates the pitch clock as well as information like the batter’s exit velocity.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 29 Mar. 2026
  • One of the strategies for combatting climate change in the Tomorrow Garden is agroforestry, which integrates the cultivation of trees and crops together.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 29 Mar. 2026

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“Desegregate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desegregate. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.

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