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Fourteenth Amendment
The amendment grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. The amendment had been rejected by most Southern states but was ratified by the required three-fourths of the states. -
Arrest of Rosa Parks
It was a nonviolent protest in alabama during december 1,1955 .Rosa parks was arrested on a bus because she didn't give her sit up to a white man. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The montgomery bus boycott was in alabama in december 1, 1955.The leaders in the montgomery bus boycott was martin luther king jr. It was nonviolent protest . -
Greenboros sit-in
IDespite advances in the fight for racial equality , segregation was still the norm across the southern United States in 1960. Early that year, a non-violent protest by young African-American students at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked a sit-in movement that soon spreaded throughout the region. Though many of the protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace, their actions made an immediate and lasting impact, -
Charlotee Busing
A federal judge ordered the school district to use busing to speed integration.Test scores for black students continue to rise — but school segregation has shot up dramatically