How to Use desegregation in a Sentence

desegregation

noun

• School desegregation in the cities sparks white flight to the suburbs.
  — Idrees Kahloon, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
• But his parents did not protest the desegregation or remove him from the school.
  — Sapna Maheshwari, The Seattle Times, 21 Jan. 2018
• But the roots of the conflict over desegregation in the district date back decades.
  — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 June 2021
• And parish schools have been the subject of a decades-long desegregation lawsuit.
  — Abigail Hauslohner and Emily Guskin, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2017
• Those same schools are part of the current desegregation debate now playing out in the city.
  — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 3 July 2018
• Stone was the lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the landmark school desegregation case.
  — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2022
• One by one — throughout the decades that ushered in desegregation, redlining and white flight — the stores shut down.
  — Amelia Pak-Harvey, The Indianapolis Star, 4 June 2021
• The case dealt with the desegregation of the public schools in Detroit.
  — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 31 July 2019
• 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
• Since Linda Brown was a girl, progress on school desegregation has foundered.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The second is that desegregation gave Black Tulsans more of a choice of where to live and work.
  — Carlos Moreno, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2021
• His first book focused on the effects of desegregation on children.
  — ABC News, 7 June 2026
• There is no disparity in magnet schools, the bulk of which were opened in the wake of a landmark school desegregation case.
  — Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, courant.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• 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
• And today marks 70 years since the decision that led to the desegregation of schools.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 May 2024
• The sit-ins and school desegregation of the 1950s were winding down, and for many, that was good — and enough.
  — Kyle Sammin, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020
• The benefit of desegregation, then and now, is the breakdown of racial stereotypes.
  — Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Time, 11 Sep. 2019
• The initial days of the school desegregation method in 1975 were met with riots.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 2 June 2022
• White authorities closed the public schools for five years to avoid desegregation.
  — Jonathan Entin, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
• That act led to the desegregation of other colleges in Georgia and the South.
  — Laura Diamond, ajc, 10 Jan. 2011
• But desegregation also closed many doors for Black teachers.
  — David Blazar, The Conversation, 1 June 2026
• 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
• 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
• The state cases come amid shifts in federal enforcement of desegregation in schools.
  — Annie Ma, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
• The latter was the site of the 1960 sit-in that led to the desegregation of lunch counters in the South.
  — Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
• In their assessments, desegregation and the passage of time have cured all of America’s racial ills.
  — Time, 4 Sep. 2025
• The four had joined a lawsuit filed in 1949 that led to the desegregation of the university's law school.
  — Fox News, 31 July 2018
• School desegregation and related school issues were not the only reasons why White people left the city.
  — Alan J. Borsuk, jsonline.com, 16 Jan. 2026
• The school then served as a public high school for Black students and, after desegregation, as an alternative school.
  — Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2026