Desegregation meaning

The removal of laws and policies enforcing a separation of the races.
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The act or process of eliminating segregation.
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A specific period in United States history during which laws requiring racial segregation were struck down and the practice was deterred, beginning in the United States military during World War II and occurring in society in general from the mid-1950s.
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Desegregation Sentence Examples

  • Rosa Parks is a great example of a bastion for desegregation.

  • Included here might be desegregation programs, programs designed to increase contact among different races and cultures.

  • It was CORE that forced the issue of desegregation in interstate transportation with the Freedom Rides of 1961.

  • Magnet schools were originally formed in the 1960s and 1970s to promote voluntary racial desegregation in urban school districts.

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