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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Voting Rights Act | Made into law in 1965. This outlawed discrimination in voter registration. For example, the jelly bean test and reading tests given to African Americans. |
| violence | behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. |
| peaceful protest | the act of expressing disapproval using nonviolent techniques, such as marching, sit-ins, and civil disobedience. |
| equality | the state of being equal |
| civil rights | the rights of people to receive equal treatments--in schools, businesses, and housing, etc. |
| nonviolence | the use of peaceful means, not force, to bring about political or social change. |
| desegregation | the elimination of laws under which people from different religions, ancestries, ethnic groups kept separate from another group |
| integration | the act of combining or bringing together |
| 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, as well as the right to vote |
| segregation | being set apart or separating |