desegregate

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Recent Examples of desegregate During the Civil Rights movement, the public sector was quicker to desegregate its workforce and offer equal employment opportunities than the private sector. Daryl Fairweather, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Hill told The Star that the root of her passion sprang from her own experience attending KCPS during a time when the district sought to desegregate schools through busing efforts. Mará Rose Williams august 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2025 But the elementary school has its own history of taking ambitious steps, choosing in 1944 to voluntarily desegregate. Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025 And yet, over his first few years in office, Truman proposed federal laws against lynching and poll taxes, and, when that didn’t work, used executive orders to desegregate the military and require racial equality in federal hiring. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for desegregate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for desegregate
integrate
Verb
  • Every detail in this cottage-style kitchen is enchanting, including the minor yet impactful choice to integrate the countertop with the apron-front sink.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The ring is designed to integrate directly with the Reebok Fitness App, which offers more than 1,000 hours of fitness and wellness content.
    Emily Burns, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025

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