DEFINITIONS

The separation of different races in daily life, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a rest room, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home are examples for racial segregation.

In addition, discrimination is the act of denying rights, benefits, justice, equitable treatment, or access to facilities available to all others, to an individual or group of people because of their race, age, gender, handicap or other defining characteristic.

The Civil Rights Movement was a mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the United States that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s.