reˈsegregate, v.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To segregate again. So resegreˈgation.
| 1923 Daily Mail 24 May 6 As travelling facilities improved these races began to resegregate themselves. Ibid., With the upheaval of the war, when..the population was in a state of flux, resegregation probably became more rapid and accentuated. 1954 Newsweek 27 Sept. 59/2 (heading) Now resegregation. Ibid., In this fashion were Greenbrier County's desegregated schools resegregated. 1970 Washington Post 22 Jan. a20/1 ‘Resegregation’ is what may occur when a formerly de jure segregated school system complies with the order to desegregate and..people move around in such a way as to ‘resegregate’ the schools—only on a de facto basis this time. 1976 Time 27 Sept. 57/3 Another pattern of resegregation occasionally takes place within desegregated schools when students are simply assigned to segregated classes. |