Racial segregation: Quick Facts

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March on Washington

segregated lunch counter

segregated water cooler

protesting racial segregation

racial segregation

racially restricted beach in apartheid-era South Africa

Black and white sign reading Pretoria, suburban station for non-whites, displayed in the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa as part of a segregation exhibit.

Plessy v. Ferguson judgment

segregated movie theatre

Black and white image of the Greensboro Sit-In, in which young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter.

Video thumbnail image shows Black South African schoolchildren standing behind a fence.

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Key People

Dodson, Patrick

Patrick Dodson

Australian activist and politician

George Wallace

George Wallace

American politician

Morrison Remick Waite

Morrison Remick Waite

chief justice of United States

Henry Billings Brown

Henry Billings Brown

United States jurist

Shaw, Lemuel

Lemuel Shaw

American jurist

Martin Luther King, Jr. (center), with other civil rights supporters lock arms on as they lead the way along Constitution Avenue during the March on Washington, Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.

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