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• v  open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups
  This school is completely desegregated

• They studiously tried to ignore women pickets protesting the archbishop's excommunication the day before of three Roman Catholics who had opposed his decision to desegregate the .
• After Panetta vigorously worked to desegregate Southern schools, to the chagrin of Nixon administration officials such as Vice President Spiro Agnew, he was forced to resign from .
• When President Dwight Eisenhower sent in the 101st Airborne to protect the students, some feared this and other efforts to desegregate the nation's schools might signal the start .

• integrate
• mix

• segregate

News & Articles

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• The Desegregation Of Birmingham's Golf Courses
  This week Audie Cornish takes us deeper into the news that shaped the city of Birmingham, Alabama in the summer of 1963. Today, she visits the Boswell-Highlands golf course and talks to black golfers about the journey to desegregate the city's public greens.
  June 21, 2013 - NPR

Quotes

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• Mary Frances Berry in Forbes
  Mary Frances Berry, a former chairman and 25-year member of the US Commission on Civil Rights, said Thursday's ruling "just means that people are closed off from having any kind of goal at all in communities if they wish to desegregate, and if they...
• Barack Obama in New York Times
  Before welfare reform, you had, in the minds of most Americans, a stark separation between the deserving working poor and the undeserving welfare poor,Mr. Obama said in an interview. "What welfare reform did was desegregate those two...
• Jesse Jackson in Black America Web
  Now the issue is we must fight for our shares of these posts,Jackson said. "We need more hosts, writers and producers. We need to desegregate the airways, bringing an end to segregation of the airways. From three to 11, all day, all night,...