integration

Introduction

integration, in U.S. history, the goal of an organized movement to break down the barriers of discrimination and segregation separating African Americans from the rest of American society. Racial segregation was peculiar neither to the American South nor to the United States (see apartheid).

Sections in this article:

Introduction
The 1964 Civil Rights Act to the Present
Other Fields
Public Transportation and Accommodations
School Desegregation
Reconstruction to 1954
Bibliography

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