desegregation efforts
Ending enforced separation
Desegregation efforts are organized actions aimed at ending the separation of people by race in schools, housing, public facilities, or other institutions.
The term typically refers to mid-20th-century American civil rights initiatives: The city's desegregation efforts met fierce resistance.
It implies active work against entrenched systems rather than passive change.
- Brown v. Board of EducationLandmark desegregation decision
- Little Rock NineStudents who desegregated Arkansas school
- school integrationEnding separated education
- NAACPCivil rights advocacy organization
- racial integrationUnifying separated ethnic groups
Rosa Parks · bus boycotts · March on Washington · Martin Luther King Jr. · affirmative action · equity in education · Freedom Rides · protest marches · busing · grassroots organizing · voter registration drives · anti-discrimination laws · sit-in movement · lunch counter protests · consent decrees · civil disobedience · judicial oversight · Thurgood Marshall
desegregation effortssegregation
Forced separation by group
Jim Crow laws · racial segregation · segregationist policies · apartheid · school segregation
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