efforts to desegregate the town's buses Eventually the city's schools desegregated.
Recent Examples on the WebAlso, magnet schools were created in part to help desegregate schools, but about one in four of magnet schools are still made up of predominantly one race or ethnicity, according to the GAO study. Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022 Cherrydale, established in 1893 and named for a resident’s large cherry orchard behind the local post office, was home to Stratford Junior High School, the first school in Virginia to desegregate, in 1959. Hope Hodge Seck, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022 All agree that the state can do more to desegregate communities, bring more economic diversity to Boston’s suburbs, and create more places where average people can afford to live. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022 Several Southern states refused to comply and sometimes violently resisted the ruling to desegregate their schools. Connie L. Schaffer, The Conversation, 3 May 2022 But, by then, struggles over exclusionary zoning had become the flash point in civil-rights campaigns to desegregate the suburbs. Gideon Lewis-kraus, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2022 Eckford was one of the Little Rock Nine — the first African American students to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock. Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 25 July 2022 From there, the district will be required to submit a plan, called a consent order, detailing efforts to desegregate its schools.al, 19 July 2022 The city’s lunch counters were the first in the South to desegregate. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022 See More