desegregate
Remove racial barriers
To desegregate is to end the separation of people by race in schools, housing, public facilities, or other institutions.
The term arose in mid-twentieth-century America during the civil rights movement: The Supreme Court ordered schools to desegregate.
Desegregation may be voluntary or court-mandated, and the process often proved contentious and slow.
Combine into a whole
- mergeCombine into unity
- blendCombine into mixture
- combineMerge, or harvesting machine
- intermixBlend things together
commingle · coexist · mainstream · incorporate · assimilate · harmonize · consolidate · open
Civil rights advocacy organization
Places of learning
- busesMulti-passenger road vehicles
- restroomsPublic toilet facilities
- neighborhoodsResidential districts of towns
- housingDwellings or protective covering
parks · beaches · hospitals · military · workplace · churches · swimming pools · theaters
Formal authoritative directive
- court-orderedRequired by judicial ruling
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- rulingFormal legal determination
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
compliance · decree · injunction · quota · redistricting · rezoning · busing · antidiscrimination
unify
Combine into a whole
intermix · commingle · coexist · mainstream · incorporate · assimilate · harmonize · consolidate · open · admit
NAACP
Civil rights advocacy organization
schools
Places of learning
- busesMulti-passenger road vehicles
- restroomsPublic toilet facilities
- neighborhoodsResidential districts of towns
housing · parks · beaches · hospitals · military · workplace · churches · swimming pools · theaters · hotels
mandate
Formal authoritative directive
- court-orderedRequired by judicial ruling
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- rulingFormal legal determination
enforcement · compliance · decree · injunction · quota · redistricting · rezoning · busing · antidiscrimination · remedy
desegregatesegregate
Separate by category
resegregate · separate · ghettoize · Jim Crow · apartheid
desegregatesegregate
Separate by category
balkanize · fragment · splinter · sectionalize · compartmentalize
- desegregation effortsActions ending racial separation
- school desegregationEnding racial separation in classrooms
- desegregation ordersMandates to end racial separation
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