Segregation:

        In the 1900s the rights of minorities weren’t equal to White-Americans. African-Americans were not allowed to go to the same schools, drink the same water, and were segregated in the military until 1948. Social and economic barriers were in place, making it much more difficult to succeed in life compared to White-Americans. Some of these barriers were not getting served at restaurants, sitting in the back of the bus, and getting turned down from jobs. This led to an increase in those that demanded civil rights and many African-Americans began taking action to cause change. 

"I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect."
~ Martin Luther King Jr. 

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