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1954 Supreme Court case in which racial segregation in public schools was outlawed
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On Feb. 1, 1960, four students from all-black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into a Woolworth five-and-dime with the intention of ordering lunch.
But the manager of the Greensboro Woolworth had intentions of his own — to maintain the lunch counter's strict whites-only policy. -
1961 event organized by CORE and SNCC in which an interracial group of civil rights activists tested southern states' compliance to the Supreme Court ban of segregation on interstate buses
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The Children's Crusade was the name bestowed upon a march by hundreds of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 2, May 3, and May 4, 1963, during the American Civil Rights Movement's Birmingham Campaign.
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1963 civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C., in which protesters called for “jobs and freedom”
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Protest in 1955–1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama
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Protest in 1955–1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama