as in to integrate
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Some 63 years after Brown v. the Board of Education, Cleveland became the last district in the United States to desegregate in 2017.
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Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2024
The other was the Detroit City Council's (then known as the Common Council) vote against an open housing ordinance supported by Cavanagh that would have helped desegregate the city’s neighborhoods.
—Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2024
On desegregating America’s schools, Republicans have offered School Choice which was preceded by the successful creation of Magnet Schools during the Reagan Administration.
—Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2024
Although the military had been formally desegregated for decades, the military (and veteran) population became more racially and ethnically diverse as the self-selection dynamics of the all-volunteer force took root and as minorities increasingly saw service as a form of economic mobility.
—Phillip Carter, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
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Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2024
The other was the Detroit City Council's (then known as the Common Council) vote against an open housing ordinance supported by Cavanagh that would have helped desegregate the city’s neighborhoods.
—Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2024
On desegregating America’s schools, Republicans have offered School Choice which was preceded by the successful creation of Magnet Schools during the Reagan Administration.
—Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2024
Although the military had been formally desegregated for decades, the military (and veteran) population became more racially and ethnically diverse as the self-selection dynamics of the all-volunteer force took root and as minorities increasingly saw service as a form of economic mobility.
—Phillip Carter, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
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