How to Use desegregation in a Sentence

desegregation

noun

• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Lemon Grove in 1931 was the location of the nation’s first successful school desegregation case.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
• Each school district in those states faced a different set of challenges to desegregation.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• In 2019, a video of white students using racist and anti-Semitic slurs surfaced in Hoover, which had just begun to make headway in desegregation efforts.
  — al, 17 Nov. 2021
• For the first time in more than thirty years, Shelby County Schools is seeking relief from a decades-old desegregation order.
  — al, 19 July 2022
• The Carters, unlike many of their neighbors, supported school desegregation, and Mr. Carter was inspired to run for office.
  — Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Harbsmeier also covered the civil rights movement, court rulings on school desegregation and the protests on the issue, WHAS said.
  — Ayana Archie, The Courier-Journal, 5 Dec. 2021
• Researchers hope their restoration efforts will help honor the legacy of pilots like Moody, who paved the way for desegregation in the military.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
• Most striking was his push for reargument in the epochal desegregation case of Brown v. Board of Education.
  — Charles S. Dameron, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• Back in 1954, some parents objected to the racial desegregation of public schools.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2022
• Fighting desegregation was not high on Pound’s list of causes.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Longtime residents trace it back to the 1960s, when desegregation spurred White flight, draining the city’s tax base and leaving its infrastructure a mess.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 25 Sep. 2022
• In 1967, Judge Frank Johnson expanded desegregation orders to schools across the state.
  — Rebecca Griesbach | [e-mail], al, 8 Sep. 2023
• That last line pointedly quoted from a ruling written by Chief Justice John Roberts in a school-desegregation case in 2006.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2022
• Years earlier in Boston, Adams’ father had a hand in the desegregation reforms.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 8 June 2022
• The two schools were built at the same time and opened to students in August 2019 at a time when the district was obligated in the federal desegregation lawsuit to equalize the condition of its school buildings.
  — Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024