On June 18, 1962 the citizens voted to abolish segregation, causing the district to make immediate plans to integrate black students into white schools.

Although he never ruled on the contentious social issue, Holmes believed the concept justified abolishing segregation.

After the war, in 1866, Rhode Island abolished racial segregation throughout the state.

During this time, he was instrumental in efforts to abolish slavery and segregation.

However, Governor Simpson in 1957 had signed into law Wyoming civil rights measure which had already abolished racial segregation in his state.

The civil rights revolution abolished racial segregation by law, but not racial segregation by class.

The Alberta government abolished gender-based segregation of bars in the rest of the province (without an additional plebiscite) in 1967.

In 1866, Rhode Island abolished racial segregation in the public schools throughout the state.

It was not simply a matter of abolishing racial segregation and admitting an oppressed minority into the mainstream of society, as the United States had done.

From that time on, she was a prominent civil rights activist (this is all, remember, 10 or more years before the supreme court's ruling abolishing segregation).