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desegregation  

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  • Desegregation entered the standard American English lexicon in about 1951 to describe the process of removing racial and other minorities from isolation or sequestration in society. The related terms segregation and integration are found in sixteenth-century texts and have broader generic meanings that require contextual understanding. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education; Desegregation]

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