(US, historical) An alternative school for black students in places where they were denied access to adequate public school.
(US, historical) An alternative school for black students in places where they were denied access to adequate public school.
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(US) An African-American municipality or community built by freedmen, former slaves who were emancipated during and after the American Civil War.
(US, politics, historical) In the United States in the 1960s (chiefly 1961), any one of a number of trips taken by bus or other forms of transport through parts of the southern U.S., made by groups of civil rights activists demonstrating their opposition to racial prejudice and segregation.
A free person, particularly.
(chiefly, US, politics, public policy) A protest rally by people parading in public streets in opposition to racism and in support of civil rights, especially on behalf of African Americans and especially during the 1960s.