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White European colonists brought enslaved black Africans to North America
in the early 1600s. Slavery remained a major driver of the economy in the
southern United States until the 1860s.
from attending the same schools and black people from using the
same transportation and occupying the same public spaces as
white people. Leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and
1960s—including Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, Dorothy Height,
and others—pushed back against Jim Crow laws and worked toward
federal legislation that would outlaw discrimination. The passage of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned such segregation, seemed
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