SINCE 1828
desegregate
verb
de·seg·re·gate
| \ (ˌ)dē-ˈse-gri-ˌgāt
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desegregated;
desegregating;
desegregates
Definition of desegregate
: to eliminate segregation in
specifically
: to free of any law, provision, or practice requiring isolation of the members of a particular race in separate units
: to become desegregated
Examples of desegregate in a Sentence
efforts to desegregate the town's buses
Eventually the city's schools desegregated.
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On Tuesday, students again tried to desegregate the bowling alley, and again were turned away. — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, "‘Stained with blood’: The 1968 campus massacre of black protesters by South Carolina police," 8 Feb. 2018 The last straw may have come when the group sued to desegregate two school districts. — Jeff Amy, The Seattle Times, "Lawyer in civil rights struggle, Michael Trister, dies at 77," 30 Oct. 2018 Linda Brown, who became the symbolic center of Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court case that desegregated the nation's public schools, died on Sunday at 76. — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, "Linda Brown’s death is a reminder of how much segregation still exists in America’s schools," 27 Mar. 2018 Out of Green and the many cases that followed it, the Supreme Court built a complex and versatile set of rules for desegregating schools. — Will Stancil, The Atlantic, "Is School Desegregation Coming to an End?," 28 Feb. 2018 Public school districts across the country have long wrestled with how to desegregate their schools in ways supported by the law, which forbids districts from using the race of individual students to determine their placement. — Michelle Hackman, WSJ, "Rollback of Affirmative Action Guidelines Could Reshape K-12 School Districts," 14 July 2018 In the 1960s and 1970s, as historian Randall Balmer has shown, white evangelicals in the South felt anxious about Supreme Court decisions forcing them to desegregate their K-12 academies and colleges. — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, "Historian and author John Fea on Trump’s “court evangelicals” and the long history of Christian nationalism.," 5 Nov. 2018 Marshall was essentially arguing that officials in Little Rock, Ark. had to follow a federal court order to desegregate its schools. — Bill Mears, Fox News, "The 'forgotten' Supreme Court decision and its impact on our politics," 9 Sep. 2018 Integration was a key objective from the beginning for MPS, which launched the immersion schools and other magnet programs as a way to comply with a federal court order to desegregate. — Annysa Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "At this MPS school, a mission of inclusion — and immersion in the French language — is vibrant after 40 years," 12 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'desegregate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for desegregate
desegregate
verb
English Language Learners Definition of desegregate
: to end a policy that keeps people of different races apart : to end a policy of segregation
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desegregate
verb
de·seg·re·gate
| \ dē-ˈse-gri-ˌgāt
\
\
desegregated;
desegregating
Kids Definition of desegregate
: to end by law the separation of members of different races
desegregate schools
desegregate
transitive verb
de·seg·re·gate
| \ dē-ˈse-grə-ˌgāt
\
\
desegregated;
desegregating
Legal Definition of desegregate
: to eliminate segregation in
specifically
: to free from any law, provision, or practice requiring isolation of the members of a particular race in separate units
: to become desegregated
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