Jim Crow Laws: Racial segregation laws enacted at both state and local levels in the United States between 1876 and 1965.
Civil Rights Movement: A social movement during the mid-20th century aimed at achieving legal rights and equality for African Americans.
Rosa Parks: An African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott and further fueling the civil rights movement.