desegregation
noun
de·seg·re·ga·tion
(ˌ)dē-ˌse-gri-ˈgā-shən 
1
: the state of being desegregated
2
: the action or an instance of desegregating
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The ensuing lawsuit resulted in the legal desegregation of the nation's capital.
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CBS News, 6 June 2024
As a result of its disparate treatment of students, the district remained under a federal desegregation order until 2001.
—Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 4 June 2024
The legacy of desegregation, for example, shows that even a profoundly antiracist policy can be turned against itself in its implementation.
—Rachel Poser January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 4 June 2024
In South Carolina, school desegregation did not begin until 1963, when Judge Robert Martin ruled in Millicent Brown et al v. Charleston County School Board, District 20, to approve requests from Black students to be admitted to white schools.
—Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 28 May 2024
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CBS News, 6 June 2024
As a result of its disparate treatment of students, the district remained under a federal desegregation order until 2001.
—Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 4 June 2024
The legacy of desegregation, for example, shows that even a profoundly antiracist policy can be turned against itself in its implementation.
—Rachel Poser January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 4 June 2024
In South Carolina, school desegregation did not begin until 1963, when Judge Robert Martin ruled in Millicent Brown et al v. Charleston County School Board, District 20, to approve requests from Black students to be admitted to white schools.
—Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 28 May 2024
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desegregation
noun
de·seg·re·ga·tion
dē-ˌse-grə-ˈgā-shən
1
: the action or an instance of desegregating
2
: the state of being desegregated
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