Definition of desegregation in English English dictionary
A specific period in United States history during which laws requiring racial segregation were struck down and the practice was deterred, beginning in the United States military during World War II and occurring in society in general from the mid-1950s
The elimination of segregation Also refers to a specific United States movement, political event, and/or period of time in which desegregation was being implemented in national education policy A court ruling in 1954, Brown v Board of Education, The United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of implementing a system of national desegregated schools
To desegregate something such as a place, institution, or service means to officially stop keeping the people who use it in separate groups, especially groups that are defined by race. efforts to desegregate sport The school system itself is not totally desegregated. = integrate segregate + desegregation de·seg·re·ga·tion Desegregation may be harder to enforce in rural areas. to end a system in which people of different races are kept separate integrate segregate