desegregated

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Although the schools might be racially desegregated, their facilities and extracurricular activities differ.

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  1. transitive verb To abolish or eliminate segregation in.
  2. transitive verb To open (a school or workplace, for example) to members of all races or ethnic groups, especially by force of law.
  3. intransitive verb To become open to members of all races or ethnic groups.

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  • LITTLE ROCK - A court ruling Thursday affirming the Little Rock School District is largely desegregated could be the beginning of the end for millions of dollars in state desegregation money for Pulaski County schools, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said.
  • The court rejected slavery in 1839, and in 1868 ruled that Iowa public schools had to be desegregated - 86 years before the Brown versus Board of Education decision. —  The Caucus
  • Rosser grew up in Seat Pleasant, and her parents were local civil rights activists who in 1972 fought for county schools to be desegregated. —  WBALTV.com - Local News
  • Ahead of its time, it wasn't until five years later in 1960 when all casinos in Las Vegas desegregated. —  Las Vegas News Blog
  • Over decades of legal battles and boycotts and marches, amid sacrifice, lynchings, and even assassination, black Americans redeemed their Constitutional rights to vote, to attend desegregated schools, to live in the neighborhoods of their own choosing, and to participate in civil life on equal terms. —  FindLaw Writ - Recent Articles
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