Segregation: The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.
Civil Rights Movement: A struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve civil rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education.
Equal Protection Clause: Part of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution providing that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction 'the equal protection of the laws.'