Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To abolish or eliminate segregation in.
- intransitive verb To open (a school or workplace, for example) to members of all races or ethnic groups, especially by force of law.
- intransitive verb To become open to members of all races or ethnic groups.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb to eliminate laws, regulations, or customs which prohibit members of a specific racial or national group from using (certain locations, organizations, or facilities); to introduce members of a racial or religious group into (a community, facility, or organization from which they had been barred).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove
segregation by allowing access to something by people of all races or ethnicity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups
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Examples
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Well, I wanted to kind of ask specifically about the time that, that the public schools began to desegregate, which is about 1965,
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He discusses the combined effects of wealth disparities, residential segregation, racial anxieties, and the politics of both challenge and accommodation that converged to create a school system that was among the first in the nation to voluntarily "desegregate" following the 1954 Brown decision while also coming under repeated scrutiny from the U.S.
Dr. Maya Rockeymoore: Zero-Basing Public Schools, Free-Basing Education Policy Dr. Maya Rockeymoore 2010
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Where are the white children supposed to come from to "desegregate" either the CPS neighborhood schools or the charter schools.
Arne Duncan Post Gets A Response Jim Horn 2008
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Where are the white children supposed to come from to "desegregate" either the CPS neighborhood schools or the charter schools.
Archive 2008-12-01 Jim Horn 2008
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The 1970s were a particularly critical time in the battle to desegregate American schools.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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An interdistrict remedy could help to desegregate both the Chicago public schools and the nearby suburban schools.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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Board of Education, that its voters amended their constitution to allow school districts to close all schools to avoid having to desegregate them.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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In other words, it sought to end efforts by the federal government and the federal courts to desegregate the schools.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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“Color blindness” sounds noble, but there is every difference in the world between using race to discriminate and using race to desegregate.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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Some school systems attempted to close public schools rather than desegregate.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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