-Jim Crow Laws were laws created by white southerners to enforce racial segregation across the South from the 1870's to the 1960's.

*Segregation

-Segregation is the action of separating people based on their race and/or gender.

-Racial inequality means "the result of hierarchical social distinctions between racial and ethnic categories within a society."

-Racial discrimination means any discrimination against any individual on the basis of their race, ancestry, ethnicity, or skin color.

-Booker T. Washington was an educator and reformer, the first president and principle developer of the Tuskegee Institute

*Ida B. Wells

-Ida B. Wells was an African American journalist and civil rights advocate.

*Web Dubois

-Web Dubois was an early leader of the civil rights movement in the United States.

-Adrienne Maree Brown was an activist, writer, and fasilitator

*Tarana Burke

-Tarana Burke started the #MeToo movement in 2006

*Kimberle Crenshaw

-Kimberle Crenshaw is a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights, critical race theory, and black feminist legal theory.

*Patrisse Cullors

*Roxane Gay

-The NAACP 's mission is to ensure the political, educational, equality of minority group citizens of States and eliminate race prejudice.

*Tuskegee Institute

-The Tuskegee Institute's purpose was the first institution of higher learning for African Americans.

-Racial inequality is improving from because the Biden-Harris Administration has championed racial equity and further advanced equal opportunity for underserved communities.

*Racial justice through the federal government

-On January 20, 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 13985 on “Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.”