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And the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare used the leverage those funds provided to press schools into desegregating.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2025

The original song, written by Paul McCartney, is reportedly an ode to Little Rock Nine's bravery in desegregating schools in Arkansas during the late '60s.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2024

Closing the libraries would have been eerily similar to the history across the U.S. of closing swimming pools rather than desegregating them, Halpern said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2023

Tyler, 16 at the time, was in a cohort of Black students desegregating Destrehan High School in a New Orleans suburb.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2023

As the new minister at the Church of Christ on Texas and Clements streets on the Southside, he undertook the challenge of desegregating the schools and obliterating the boundary of the railroad tracks.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger