desegregation
noun
de·seg·re·ga·tion
(ˌ)dē-ˌse-gri-ˈgā-shən 
1
: the state of being desegregated
2
: the action or an instance of desegregating
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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.
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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
The support of prominent national figures further emboldened those who fought desegregation on the local level.
—Essence, 22 Mar. 2025
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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
The support of prominent national figures further emboldened those who fought desegregation on the local level.
—Essence, 22 Mar. 2025
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desegregation
noun
de·seg·re·ga·tion
dē-ˌse-grə-ˈgā-shən
1
: the action or an instance of desegregating
2
: the state of being desegregated
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