desegregation

as in integration

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Recent Examples of desegregation The Containment, by Michelle Adams Legal scholar Michelle Adams traces school desegregation efforts in her native Detroit and their reverberations throughout the North. Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2025 The High Court’s 5-4 decision overturned a ruling by a federal judge who had ordered the desegregation of Detroit’s public schools several years earlier. John Blake, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025 Bridges, now 70, was 6 years old when she was escorted to school by U.S. marshals through the streets of New Orleans surrounded by throngs of angry people protesting desegregation. Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2025 Community advocates Tuyet-Lan Pho and Anne Mulvey had earlier helped Lowell families work toward school desegregation. H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 12 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for desegregation
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  • As the promise of European integration waned after the end of the Cold War, the appeal of political Islam grew, setting the stage for the rise of Erdogan and the AKP in 2002.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • In fact, Harborside only began cultivation after the City of San Jose mandated full vertical integration for dispensaries.
    Robert Hoban, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025

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“Desegregation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desegregation. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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