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In Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama to protest segregated seating. -
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
Greensboro sit-in, act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, that began on February 1, 1960. -
Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. -
Southern segregationists rioted and fought state and federal forces on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi to prevent the enrollment of the first African American student to attend the university, -
The Birmingham Campaign was a movement led in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which sought to bring national attention of the efforts of local black leaders to desegregate public facilities in Birmingham, Alabama -
Political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1963 by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress -
It was a 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi -
Selma was the starting point for three marches in support of African-Americans' right to vote. These marches were crucial to the eventual passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965