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US
/dɪˈsɛɡɹəˌɡeɪt/
]
VERB
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open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups
This school is completely desegregated
How To Use desegregate In A Sentence
- The school system itself is not totally desegregated.
- This school is completely desegregated
- Plans to desegregate the schools/universities met with opposition.
- Do you think that if Hip hop was around in the 30's 40 and 50's as oppose to Dr. King in his movement that we would be sitting in a so-called desegregated society and we would have seen the the kind of civil rights legislation we saw. SOHH Blogs
- But I never knew that the white racist mobs later harrassed and violently attacked the few white students who refused to flee from the "desegregated" school. Archive 2007-02-01
- Indeed, the 1955 instruction in the second judgment to desegregate the public schools with ‘all deliberate speed’ remains the classic example of non-compliance.
- After the lunch counter at the largest department store in Atlanta was desegregated, sit-in organizers were dismayed that the first black people to eat there honored the occasion by dressing in their finest clothes, including fur coats. A Renegade History of the United States
- Some school systems attempted to close public schools rather than desegregate. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
- The school system itself is not totally desegregated.
- I recently saw a movie about Ruby Bridges, one of the African-American children in New Orleans who were part of the first attempt to desegregate public schools in the south.