desegregate
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desegregate (third-person singular simple present desegregates, present participle desegregating, simple past and past participle desegregated)
- (transitive) To the end segregation of (something).
- 2005, James J. Raciti, Ask about Florida, page 86:
- What was the goal of the "swim-ins" held in St. Augustine? In 1964, black Americans were eager to desegregate Florida beaches. They targeted St. Augustine during the city's 300th year celebration.
- 2020 July 18, Bernard Lafayette Jr., “The First Time John Lewis and I Integrated the Buses”, in New York Times[1]:
- During the 1960 Christmas vacation holiday, John and I decided on our own to desegregate a Greyhound bus in Nashville. That was before the Freedom Rides.
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remove segregation
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