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Historical examples include President Dwight D. Eisenhower sending federalized National Guard troops to enforce desegregation orders in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957, and President George H.W. Bush using the Guard during the Los Angeles riots in 1992.
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Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
The Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District has been declared unitary and no longer under court supervision in a desegregation lawsuit with roots in the 1980s, a district judge ruled Tuesday.
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—Dmitry Martirosov, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2025
Of course the road to desegregation was treacherous — and, yes, those (white) mothers put up massive, traumatic resistance to the equal education of Black students — but, ultimately, those sacrifices were worth it.
—Andrea Williams, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Sep. 2025
In fact, the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights launched an educational campaign in the mid-1970s using billboards, leaflets and bumper stickers highlighting how housing desegregation could lead to neighborhood exemption from busing, the report noted.
—Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
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Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
The Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District has been declared unitary and no longer under court supervision in a desegregation lawsuit with roots in the 1980s, a district judge ruled Tuesday.
U.S.
Support journalism that digs deeper into topics that matter most to Arkansans.
—Dmitry Martirosov, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2025
Of course the road to desegregation was treacherous — and, yes, those (white) mothers put up massive, traumatic resistance to the equal education of Black students — but, ultimately, those sacrifices were worth it.
—Andrea Williams, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Sep. 2025
In fact, the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights launched an educational campaign in the mid-1970s using billboards, leaflets and bumper stickers highlighting how housing desegregation could lead to neighborhood exemption from busing, the report noted.
—Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for desegregation
integration
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Through the integration with Tactical Assault Kit software, the team remotely controlled multiple unmanned ground and surface units across a large, 50-square-mile operational area.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Nov. 2025
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That support helped set the stage for this integration and for future broad commercial deployment.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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