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antisegregation |
combined form of segregation. |
apartheid |
a policy of racial segregation, esp. the official segregation of blacks and whites as it existed in the Republic of South Africa from 1948 until 1994. |
Civil Rights Movement |
a movement in the United States particularly prominent during the 1950s and 1960s that sought to end racial discrimination, legal segregation of blacks and whites, and racial barriers to voting. The movement was led by black leaders such as Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, and James Farmer. It mobilized tens of thousands of African Americans in protest against existing laws and practices. Activists, both black and white, endured harassment and violence from the police and others as the movement progressed. Eventually, the American civil rights movement brought about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and other measures. [1/2 definitions] |
color bar |
segregation or discrimination based on race or skin color, usu. as practiced by whites against nonwhites; color line. |
color barrier |
unspoken social code of racial segregation or discrimination, esp. in sports, education, public service, and the like. |
desegregate |
to eliminate the segregation of races in. [2 definitions] |
desegregation |
the act, result, or policy of eliminating segregation, esp. of racial or ethnic groups. |
integration |
the ending of racial separation or segregation, esp. as occurring in the United States. [1/3 definitions] |
James Farmer |
American civil rights activist and strong believer in non-violent protest against injustice. Farmer was an initiator of the Freedom Rides in the early 1960s, which served to highlight and challenge racial segregation and discrimination in the U.S. (b.1920--d. 1999). |
Jim Crow |
(informal, sometimes l.c.) the set of laws and practices in the U.S., particularly in evidence in the South, that enforced or sanctioned segregation of and discrimination against black Americans during the period between the late 1870s and the 1960s. |
Jim-Crow |
(informal, sometimes l.c.) enforcing or promoting discrimination against or the segregation of black Americans in the United States, particularly in the South during the period beginning in the late 1870s and extending into the 1960s. [1/2 definitions] |
Ku Klux Klan |
a secret society founded in Georgia in 1915 that was inspired by the earlier Ku Klux Klan and uses terrorist tactics to achieve segregation of blacks and to further the cause of white supremacy. [1/2 definitions] |
nonsegregation |
combined form of segregation. |
resegregation |
combined form of segregation. |
Rosa Parks |
U.S. civil rights activist and icon, whose arrest in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to obey segregation laws on a municipal bus inspired a wave of civil rights activism; born Rosa Louise McCauley (b.1913--d.2005). |
segregated |
operating under a social policy that requires a certain group or groups of people to be separated from others along the lines of race, religion, or other status; maintaining a policy of segregation. [1/2 definitions] |
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