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desegregate
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de·seg·re·gate  (d-sgr-gt)
v. de·seg·re·gat·ed, de·seg·re·gat·ing, de·seg·re·gates
v.tr.
1. To abolish or eliminate segregation in.
2. To open (a school or workplace, for example) to members of all races or ethnic groups, especially by force of law.
v.intr.
To become open to members of all races or ethnic groups.

de·segre·gation n.
de·segre·gation·ist n.

desegregate
Verb
[-gating, -gated] to end racial segregation in (a school or other public institution)
desegregation n
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Verb1.desegregate - open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups; "This school is completely desegregated"
segregate - separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county"
Translations
desegregate [diːˈsɛgrɪgeɪt] vtdie Rassentrennung aufheben in +dat


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Instead, he participated in a nonviolent protest at a white-only officer's club at Freeman Field in Indiana - an action that helped pave the way for Executive Order 9981, signed by President Harry Truman in 1948, desegregating the military.
At first, activists focused on desegregating public accommodation: seatings at dining places and public transportation facilities.
Moreover, the very idea that desegregating schools was the exclusive means of achieving equality assumed that black institutions and perhaps even black people were inferior.
 
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