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UK
/diːsˌɛɡɹɪɡˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /ˌdisɛɡɹəˈɡeɪʃən, dɪˌsɛɡɹəˈɡeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌdisɛɡɹəˈɡeɪʃən, dɪˌsɛɡɹəˈɡeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community
How To Use desegregation In A Sentence
- A slew of white citizens' groups sprang up to oppose desegregation.
- Unfortunately, CBS didn't stand up to the desegregationist policies of liberal so-called churches in the fifties and sixties, and look where it got us. Stamping out tolerance wherever it raises its ugly head
- The court also stipulated that the districts could be released from court ordered desegregation if the students and faculty were desegregated and the district met other desegregation requirements.
- President Nixon solidified public opposition to federal desegregation of the suburbs at a time when the nation was poised for change.
- By the 1970s it was clear that effective school desegregation required interdistrict remedies. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
- The era of integration and impending desegregation is the backdrop for an engrossing character driven story of the people of a small town in Mississippi. Advance reader reviews of The Air Between Us by Deborah Johnson.
- Michael Steele, a former Maryland Lieutenant Governor and U.S. Senate candidate, staved off South Carolina's Katon Dawson, a vocal anti-desegregationist and GOP "Good-Ole-Boy" at-large. Crimson White RSS
- This decade was characterized by increased legal challenges to mandated school desegregation policies.
- Desegregation may be harder to enforce in rural areas.
- To achieve desegregation in the South, nonviolent tactics were often successful.