Sentence examples for racial desegregation from inspiring English sources

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.

In terms of racial desegregation?

There are similarities between the resistance to same-sex marriage and earlier resistance to racial desegregation.

Thorough racial desegregation had not, it seemed, led to thorough class desegregation.

On Sept. 30, the university marked the 50th anniversary of the riots that followed its racial desegregation.

White legislators had installed it atop the dome in 1962 as a gesture of defiance against forced racial desegregation.

Again, after the 1960s, he was involved in political controversy over the legitimacy of discrimination on grounds of race as an instrument for educational desegregation and racial integration.

What this young man eloquently describes is the difference between a school desegregation plan and a racial integration plan.

But busing to achieve what became known as "racial balance" ("desegregation" has such an accusatory sound) has never been popular, and the image of little children being packed onto a bus came to symbolize the disastrous consequences of court-ordered social policy.

Desegregation may have been extraordinarily successful, but true racial integration remains distant.

The Defenders not only demanded that state legislators pledge not to support racial integration, but in June 1955 called for legislation to be enacted which barred state funds from being spent on school desegregation.