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protest pressure  

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  • Protest pressure refers to demonstrative, rhetorical, physical, and political actions taken by Africans to reject enslavement, discrimination, racism, and prejudice. Protest pressure may be thought of as having started with the slave revolts prior to the Civil War and continuing into the 21st century. [Source: Encyclopedia of Black Studies; Protest Pressure]

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