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civil right movement
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Declared state laws separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional.
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Intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation.
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Four students from all black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into a Woolworth five-and-dime with the intention of ordering lunch
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civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court .
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The Children's Crusade was the name bestowed upon a march by hundreds of school students in Birmingham, Alabama.
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The march was organized by a group of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations
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The Selma to Montgomery marches were three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement.
The first march took place on March 7, 1965, 600 civil rights marchers were attacked by state and local police
