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Integration | the inclusion of people of all races on an equal basis in neighborhoods, schools, parks, or other facilities. |
Segregation | the separation of one racial group from another or from the rest of society, especially in schools, theaters, restaurants, and other public places. |
Civil Rights Movement | mass popular movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s to secure for African Americans equal access to and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship. |
Boycott | protest in form of refusal to engage or do business with an organization or country. |
Desegregation | the doing away with the practice of providing separate schools and other public facilities for racial groups, especially blacks and whites. |
Unconstitutional | against the law. |
Civil Rights | the rights guaranteed by a nation's government to all its citizens. |
Discrimination | unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, or ethnicity. |
Sit-in | non-violent protests in which people who disagree with something sit down at a place where the injustice is being committed, and refuse to move for a specific period of time, or until the injustice stops. |
Demonstrations | gatherings of people to protest acts of injustice, or to get the support of the people to change something that needs to be changed in the law or society. |