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Board of Education decision that desegregated public schools in law if not in life, he realized, he says, that “there was a whole cultural and social order based upon differences between white and Black people.”

From New York Times • May 16, 2024

Near the entrance, a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln commemorates the founding of the desegregated cemetery in the late ’20s.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2023

She officially desegregated the event the following year.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2023

Vallas was also the first white CPS administrator since the district was desegregated in 1981.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2023

The hospital had long been desegregated by this point.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry