Racial integration

===Distinction not universally accepted===
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Although widespread, the distinction between ''integration'' and ''desegregation'' is not universally accepted. For example, it is possible to find references to "court-ordered integration" from sources such as the ''[[Detroit News]]'',<ref name="Detroit">Ron French, Brad Heath, and Christine MacDonald, [http://www.detnews.com/2004/specialreport/0405/16/a01-153972.htm Metro classrooms remain separate, often unequal], ''[[Detroit News]]'', May 16, 2002. Accessed March 26, 2006.</ref> [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]],<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wallace/timeline/index_2.html Timeline of George Wallace's Life], [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]. Accessed March 26, 2006.</ref> or even [[Encarta]].<ref>[http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761554032_4/Eisenhower.html Eisenhower] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060514175216/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761554032_4/Eisenhower.html |date=2006-05-14 }} (part 4), MSN [[Encarta]]. 0_0Accessed March 26, 2006.</ref>
These same sources also use the phrase "court-ordered desegregation", apparently with exactly the same meaning;<ref>
[https://www.pbs.org/beyondbrown/history/factsheet_history.html The Evolution of Brown v. Board of Education], part of ''Beyond Brown'', PBS. Accessed March 26, 2006.</ref><ref>[http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_761594304/President_Kennedy_Expresses_Outrage_at_Alabama_Deaths.html President Kennedy Expresses Outrage at Alabama Deaths] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040926053701/http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_761594304/President_Kennedy_Expresses_Outrage_at_Alabama_Deaths.html |date=2004-09-26 }} (sidebar), MSN Encarta. (Premium content.) Accessed March 26, 2006.</ref> the ''Detroit News'' uses both expressions interchangeably in the same article.<ref name="Detroit"/>

When the two terms are confused, it is almost always to use ''integration'' in the narrower, more legalistic sense of ''desegregation''; one rarely, if ever, sees ''desegregation'' used in the broader cultural sense.