Sentence examples for desegregated high from inspiring English sources

The garage gradually became a rendezvous for musicians to jam, although the band's progress was hindered when white classmates from their recently desegregated high school set fire to it, destroying their instruments.

Ruby attended a desegregated high school.

It gave him an opportunity to interact, engage, and work with peers from different races, socioeconomic backgrounds, and cultures and learn about racism in ways that his "desegregated" high school did not provide.

Southern Rites In this new documentary, filmmaker Gillian Laub documents a divisive murder case in a Georgia community that recently desegregated its high school proms.

Not coincidentally, that desegregated interlude was the high point of Motown's crossover triumph, and "Dancing in the Street" was released smack in the middle.

Scott-Heron himself, along with two black classmates, desegregated a Jackson junior high school, and he writes lucidly about that experience and its aftermath — including his mother's decision not to push him into it, and the strangeness of studying the Civil War in a white Southern school: "It was like reviewing it from the loser's locker room".

He attended segregated schools in Tennessee before, bravely, in 1962, becoming one of the first blacks to desegregate a junior high school.

Political scientist Charles Murray's account of his frightening experience at Middlebury College last week reminds me of stories told by the Little Rock Nine about the shouting, shoving mob they faced during their effort to desegregate Little Rock Central High in 1957.

I also received an email from a young man who had had a bad experience when his Long Island high school was desegregated about ten years ago.

Orlando was a different place in pre-Disney days, as much a part of the Old South as Sandersville had been (the local high school wasn't desegregated until her senior year).

Vest attended all-white schools until junior high school, when West Virginia desegregated the public school system.