Civil Rights Efforts

Definition

The organized actions and movements aimed at achieving equality and legal protection for marginalized groups, particularly African Americans, during a specific time period.

Related terms

Segregation: The enforced separation of different racial or ethnic groups in public facilities and institutions.

Jim Crow Laws: State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States after Reconstruction.

Plessy v. Ferguson: A Supreme Court case that established the 'separate but equal' doctrine, allowing racial segregation as long as facilities were deemed equal in quality.