Segregation: The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.
Civil Rights Movement: A struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s aimed at ending racial discrimination and segregation.
Voting Rights Act of 1965: A landmark piece of federal legislation that prohibits racial discrimination in voting, effectively dismantling legal barriers at state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.