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Segregation

The enforced separation of different racial groups in a community.

Civil Rights Movement

A decades-long struggle by African Americans to end legalized racial discrimination and gain equal rights.

Nonviolent protest

A method of protest that seeks to achieve social change without using violence.

Jim Crow Laws

State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.

Affirmative Action

Policies that take factors such as race, color, religion, sex, or national origin into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Legislation aimed at overcoming legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

MLK's Philosophy

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s advocacy for social change through nonviolent civil disobedience.

Rosa Parks

An activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man became a pivotal act in the Civil Rights Movement.

Brown v. Board of Education

A landmark Supreme Court case that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.

Black Power

A movement advocating for racial pride, economic empowerment, and the creation of political and cultural institutions for black people.