to desegregate
- verb
- /ˌdiːˈsɛɡrəˌɡeɪt/
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and other cases like it helped desegregate schools.
- desegregated schools
- struggle to desegregate
- districts desegregated
Examples
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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.
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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.
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Gentlemen... in 1948, President Truman had the courage and enlightenment... to desegregate the United States military.
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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.
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After years of protests, the city finally took steps to desegregate its public facilities.
Synonyms
To end rules that separate people by race
Antonyms
- Offensive
To keep people apart and treat them differently because of race, religion, or gender
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Morphology
Etymology
Desegregate starts with de- ('remove') and comes from segregate, which has a root meaning 'group' or 'flock', as in congregate and like the English word 'group'. So, to desegregate is to 'remove' the separation between groups so people of different races or backgrounds can come together.