Sentence examples for for promoting desegregation from inspiring English sources

Politically, he was best known for promoting desegregation.

We documented and analyzed interventions that promote desegregation and help ensure equal opportunities for quality education.

While at North Carolina, Smith helped promote desegregation by recruiting the university's first African-American scholarship basketball player, Charlie Scott, and pushing for equal treatment for African Americans by local businesses.

In 1966, the school moved to the current campus, organized as a "Freedom of Choice" school designed to promote desegregation.

Over the past thirty-five years, federal courts have dramatically retreated from actively promoting school desegregation.

Magnet schools originated in the 1970s in hope of promoting voluntary desegregation.

As a private lawyer, he went on to represent school districts in litigation to promote school desegregation, and he was responsible for negotiating a pioneering desegregation settlement between the N.A.A.C.P. and the City of St . Louis

Under her leadership, Romani CRISS won landmark anti-discrimination cases and influenced the passage of education bills promoting diversity and desegregation.

But earlier, during the fall campaign, he had announced that he opposed the use of the federal government's principal method of promoting integrated schools: enforcing federal desegregation guidelines by cutting off federal funds for schools that were out of compliance.

There was a time when the Federal government promoted -- even mandated desegregation, rather than promoting semi-private charter schools that accelerate it.

He fought for racial desegregation, and even sent his son to a desegregated public school at a time when such a position was politically unpopular and possibly dangerous.