desegregates

Removes racial barriers

Desegregates is the third-person singular form of the verb desegregate, meaning to end the separation of people by race in schools, housing, public facilities, or other institutions.

When a court desegregates a school district, it requires that students of different races attend the same schools.

The term emerged prominently during the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

The new policy desegregates public swimming pools throughout the county.

civilrights

NAACP

Civil rights advocacy organization

  • sit-insStationary protest tactics
  • SelmaAlabama civil rights city
  • busingMass student transport

CORE · apartheid · compliance

equality

equal access

Uniform right to participate

  • fairnessJust and equal treatment
  • justiceFair treatment under law
  • equityImpartial treatment or ownership value

inclusion · nondiscrimination · equal opportunity · civil liberties · human rights · parity · equal treatment · antidiscrimination · constitutional rights · social justice

process

integrates

Combines into unified whole

dismantles · abolishes · removes · ends · eliminates · combines · merges · incorporates · blends · mixes

institutions

schools

Places of learning

housing · military · workplaces · universities · hospitals · swimming pools · parks · libraries · restaurants · hotels

Opposites
separation vs. integration

desegregatessegregates

Divides by category

resegregates · separates · ghettoizes · Jim Crows · apartheids

inclusion vs. exclusion

desegregatesexcludes

Deliberately leaves out

bars · restricts · bans · shuts out · discriminates

Phrases
Family

desegregate, desegregation, desegregated, desegregating, desegregations

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