desegregation

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1. desegregation - Noun

2. Desegregation - Proper noun

Meaning

the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community

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A 1967 commission found most schools were still segregated and recommended immediate desegregation, which Mayor Lloyd Turner opposed. Source: Internet

Adlai E. Stevenson, front-runner for the party's presidential nomination in 1956, urged the government to "proceed gradually" on school desegregation in deference to the South's long-held "traditions." Source: Internet

As a student at Fisk University, Mr. Lewis was a part of the Nashville Student Movement and helped organize sit-ins that eventually led to the desegregation of the lunch counters in Downtown Nashville. Source: Internet

As counsel for the NAACP, Jones argued for the organization in school desegregation suits filed against public school districts in Cleveland, Dayton, Columbus, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Source: Internet

In a speech on deregulation delivered from the Rose Garden, Trump attacked 2020 presidential rival housing desegregation plan as an attempt to “abolish our beautiful and successful suburbs.” Source: Internet

Black American psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark studied the psychological impact of segregation and testified with their findings in the desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Source: Internet

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