Sentence examples for abolished segregation from inspiring English sources

In 1954, the Supreme Court abolished segregation in schools, and in 1966, when Virginia acknowledged that decision, I had the choice of going to an all-white school in third grade.

In 1963, would the white citizens of Birmingham have approved an ordinance that would have abolished segregation?

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As United States commissioner of education from 1966 to 1968, Mr. Howe was a driving force in the Great Society campaign to abolish segregation under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Only Mr Carter's 1960s span two decades, from the Supreme Court's 1954 decision to abolish segregation in schools in Brown v Board of Education to President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974.

A Kentucky delegate raised a question that interested me: What attitude should be taken toward a school district that had declared that in the interests of gradual and orderly change it planned to abolish segregation in only one school grade at a time?

The justices also cited the landmark 1954 decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which abolished racial segregation in schools based on the doctrine of "separate but equal".

Nor did the survivors receive due recognition for the blood sacrifice that hastened the end of apartheid in America: The church bombing, coming four months after the city of Birmingham turned fire hoses and police dogs on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s child demonstrators in the spring of 1963, helped assure the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which abolished legal segregation.

By the grace of my beloved, long-gone editor there is on my shelves a little pamphlet, brown-edged with age, a collection of reprinted daily dispatches of mine from the south, written from various towns in the spring of 1956 - two years after the supreme court abolished the segregation of the races and one year after a bus boycott in the capital city, Montgomery, state of Alabama.

From that time on, she was a prominent civil rights activist (this is all, remember, 10 or more years before the supreme court's ruling abolishing segregation).