Definitions for "desegregation"
the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community; the elimination of laws, regulations, or customs which prohibit members of a specific racial or national group from using certain locations, organizations, or facilities.
Increasing diversity in schools by forcing students (especially minorites) to bus to schools outside their neighborhoods (see Segregation, Resegretation)
The process of ending racial segregation. Desegregation was long a focus of the civil rights movement, both before and after the United States Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), particularly desegregation of the school systems. Over 500 school districts still operate to some extent under a court-mandated desegregation decree.
The ending of the separation of members of one race from members of another race.
Elimination of laws and social customs that call for the separation of the races.