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Martin Luther King Jr. and Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement

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Guarantees of equal social opportunities and equal protection under the law, regardless of race, religion, or other personal characteristics.

Civil Rights Movement

A political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the United States.

The act of making unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong. People may be discriminated on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, or sexual orientation, as well as other categories.

Unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power.

Systematic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.