Crossword clues for desegregation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
desegregation \de`seg*re*ga"tion\ n. the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community; the elimination of laws, regulations, or customs which prohibit members of a specific racial or national group from using certain locations, organizations, or facilities.
Note: In the 1960's and 1970's civil rights legislation was passed by the U. S. congress, prohibiting segregation by governmental agencies and in places of public accommodation, which resulteo in widospread besegregotion of schools and places of business. Some segregation remains in privately operated organizations.
Syn: integration, integrating.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1935, American English, from de- "do the opposite of" + segregation in the racial sense.
Wiktionary
n. The act or process of eliminating segregation.
WordNet
n. the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community [syn: integration, integrating] [ant: segregation]
Wikipedia
Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races. This is most commonly used in reference to the United States. Desegregation was long a focus of the American Civil Rights Movement, both before and after the United States Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, particularly desegregation of the school systems and the military (See Military history of African Americans). Racial integration of society was a closely related goal.
Usage examples of "desegregation".
By: Kim Isaac Eisler Category: nonfiction biography Synopsis: A biography of one of the greatest Supreme Court Justices of this century explores his role in landmark decisions on pornography, libel, desegregation, search and seizure, and legislative redistricting.
It was on that ride that the chief justice asked Brennan to get up to speed on desegregation cases.
Brennan had arrived on the Court too late to participate in the historic school desegregation case of Brown v.
Many southern politicians hoped that that language might enable them to postpone desegregation for another century.
When the Court did return to desegregation it seemed invariably to occur in short proforma rulings that were often released without explanation.
If there was any place in the South that figured to accommodate desegregation peacefully it was Little Rock, Arkansas.
It was thus not surprising when the Little Rock School Board, of which William Cooper was president, prepared a desegregation plan that would have been among the first in the South to place black students in a previously all-white high school.
This was not a case in which any of the arguments about desegregation of the schools was to be considered.
Although the word had not been officially used much in Court hearings, Brennan chose to substitute the word desegregation in his ruling in place of the more commonly used word integration.
The plans had as much to do with desegregation as, well, a pickpocket does.
Elizabeth Eckford and nine other black students hoped to enter the all-white school today as part of a desegregation plan ordered by a federal judge.
Meredith thought the desegregation of the military was among the most epochal developments in the history of black Americans.
When Meredith appeared before a military promotion board in 1954, rather than asking him about his job responsibilities, the colonels asked him his opinion of the recent Supreme Court decision ordering the desegregation of public schools in the United States.
The theory of massive resistance called for overwhelming white opposition to desegregation and carried the implicit threat of riots or other violent opposition if integration was forced by federal authorities.
Kennedy embarked on a strategy of quiet, behind-the-scenes persuasion to try to get Southern officials to voluntarily comply with judicial desegregation, backed by the threat of legal action.