desegregation

as in integration

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Recent Examples of desegregation Black people in the South were having a very difficult time registering to vote, despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964 implementing legal desegregation. Sophie Van Bastelaer, EW.com, 7 July 2025 Show more President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the National Guard to enforce desegregation at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas, and President John F. Kennedy ordered the National Guard to enforce desegregation in schools in Mississippi and Alabama. Sarah Dean, NBC news, 10 June 2025 These centers were to serve as desegregation centers and are therefore congressionally mandated. Maggie Siddiqi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025 School desegregation in the cities sparks white flight to the suburbs. Idrees Kahloon, New Yorker, 28 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for desegregation
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integration
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  • The program will also promote STEM-medicine integration, cost-effective education, and innovative academic partnerships.
    Christina Shaw, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • These include energy optimization, mass balance, advanced process control and real-time operational data integration.
    Alexander Clausbruch, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025

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