Sentence examples for ordered to desegregate from inspiring English sources

In the 70s when US schools were ordered to desegregate, sociologists found that, contrary to expectation, racial attitudes actually hardened among white people who were aggrieved at the loss of places in their preferred schools.

The state was ordered to desegregate them.

In 1955, Hartsfield had been a firefighter for 15 years — and had just passed the bar — when the Los Angeles Fire Department was ordered to desegregate its stations.

By mid-August, 18 local school districts had placed their budgets on a month-to-month basis so they could close schools on short notice if ordered to desegregate.

His biggest challenge was in addressing federal orders to desegregate the system's 16 universities — five overwhelmingly black and 11 white.

A 1986 federal housing order to desegregate Yonkers neighborhoods added about 1,000 housing units, apartments and stand-alone homes, to this city of about 200,000.

He was elected the first black president of the 200-member interracial ministerial council there, and led meetings to unite religious and civic leaders following the Supreme Court's order to desegregate the Topeka, Kan., public schools.

Despite the bombing of King's house and other acts of intimidation by segregationists, MIA leaders were able to sustain the boycott until November 1956, when the NAACP won a Supreme Court order to desegregate the bus system.

Officials who want lots of integration can only achieve it, in many cases, with a strong hand and a blatantly colour-conscious mind.From 1975 to 2000, for example, the Jefferson County school district remained under a court order to desegregate.

A lawyer, he had been city attorney in Yonkers, and had resigned in 1988, saying he disagreed with the City Council's decision to resist carrying out a federal judge's order to desegregate schools and subsidized housing.

For a while, a court order to desegregate the schools and housing in Yonkers and the resulting tumult made owning a home there, regardless of neighborhood, a risky business.