The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended racial segregation in the United States.

Malcolm X distinguished “separation” from “segregation,” defining separation as Black people voluntarily creating independent communities with their own control over politics, economics, education, and institutions, free from white oversight—unlike segregation, which he saw as whites imposing inferior conditions on Black areas while retaining dominance. #MalcolmX #seperation #elijahmuhammad #panafricanism #donsarchives