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Recent Examples of desegregate
That case concerned efforts to desegregate public schools in Detroit.
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
That started to change when the Justice Department and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare began putting pressure on school districts to desegregate.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
However, mass meetings during the 1860s that had an agenda to desegregate trolleys in Philadelphia were successful.
—Linn Washington, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2025
That remedy would necessarily involve busing students to desegregate the metropolitan area’s schools.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Feb. 2025
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
That started to change when the Justice Department and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare began putting pressure on school districts to desegregate.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
However, mass meetings during the 1860s that had an agenda to desegregate trolleys in Philadelphia were successful.
—Linn Washington, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2025
That remedy would necessarily involve busing students to desegregate the metropolitan area’s schools.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for desegregate
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“Desegregate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desegregate. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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