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Recent Examples of desegregate
During the Civil Rights movement, the public sector was quicker to desegregate its workforce and offer equal employment opportunities than the private sector.
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Daryl Fairweather, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Hill told The Star that the root of her passion sprang from her own experience attending KCPS during a time when the district sought to desegregate schools through busing efforts.
—Mará Rose Williams
august 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2025
But the elementary school has its own history of taking ambitious steps, choosing in 1944 to voluntarily desegregate.
—Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025
Although the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, ruling declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional, Austin was still ordered by a federal judge in 1971 to bus children across town to desegregate its schools — a practice that continued until 1986.
—Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
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Daryl Fairweather, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Hill told The Star that the root of her passion sprang from her own experience attending KCPS during a time when the district sought to desegregate schools through busing efforts.
—Mará Rose Williams
august 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2025
But the elementary school has its own history of taking ambitious steps, choosing in 1944 to voluntarily desegregate.
—Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025
Although the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, ruling declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional, Austin was still ordered by a federal judge in 1971 to bus children across town to desegregate its schools — a practice that continued until 1986.
—Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for desegregate
integrate
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Ideal tutors will also integrate her extracurricular interests—such as golfing, boxing, and cosmetology—into her academic agenda.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
28 Oct. 2025
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Grounded in a model that links psychological well-being to ecological well-being, CPA-NA helps clinicians integrate climate awareness into their practice and communities.—
Melissa Jun Rowley,
Rolling Stone,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Desegregate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desegregate. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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