Example sentences for: desegregation

How can you use “desegregation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the second stage, from 1974 to 1991, it curtailed the authority of the lower courts by virtually forbidding desegregation across district lines, and by requiring lower courts to give greater leeway to local authorities.

  • But as black colleges developed after the Civil War, and increasingly since the desegregation of elite universities, intellectual life for blacks--as for everyone--has come to be centered, for better and for worse, in universities.

  • At first, school board officials refused to implement desegregation plans and then submitted plans that failed to address the problem.

  • Some litigation was discrimination-based, i.e., school desegregation and voting rights cases.

  • But those who had thrived in functional black communities with strong schools and civic organizations--doing just fine without white folks--were understandably ambivalent about desegregation.


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