to desegregate

Examples

• All

• And so, at day's end, the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa had been desegregated and students Jimmy Hood and Vivian Malone had been signed up for summer classes.

  Forrest Gump (1994)

• Thus, "White flight" was a direct result of federal legislation that required schools to desegregate.

  Academic text (2011)

• However, in 1958, the city was ordered by the Virginia Federal District Court to desegregate the schools.

  Academic text (2003)

• I got schools in Mississippi that still refuse to desegregate.

  On the Basis of Sex (2018)

• Gentlemen... in 1948, President Truman had the courage and enlightenment... to desegregate the United States military.

  Men of Honor (2000)

• In the late 1970s into the 1980s, Seattle voluntarily imposed mandatory busing to desegregate the public schools.

  Academic text (2013)

• Within a week, the big hotels and restaurants desegregated, and a few days after that, the theatres reopened.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Truman's 1948 executive order desegregating the armed forces represented a major breakthrough in the struggle against Jim Crow.

  Academic text (1997)

• The court ordered the school district to desegregate to ensure equal access for all students.

• After years of protests, the city finally took steps to desegregate its public facilities.

Synonyms

I

to integrate

vsto desegregate

22 4.3

To end rules that separate people by race

ends policies or practices that kept groups separate rather than focusing on opening

Antonyms

S

to segregate

• Offensive

67 6.8

To keep people apart and treat them differently because of race, religion, or gender

How Integrated

to integrate

75 4.1

to desegregate

9 6.8

to segregate

• Offensive

67 6.8

Surface Forms

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Etymology