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civil right movement
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Sweatt v Painter
U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" -
Brown v Board of Education
Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Integrating a bus system, and one of the leaders of the boycott, a young pastor named Martin Luther King Jr., emerged as a prominent leader of the American civil rights movement. -
Little Rock Nine
the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
Greensboro Four
Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Affirmative Action
is the policy protecting members of a disadvantaged group who suffer or have suffered from discrimination within a culture -
March on Birmingham
to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama -
March on Washington
planned a mass march on Washington to protest blacks’ exclusion from World War II defense jobs and New Deal programs. -
24th Amendment
Edit prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax -
Freedom Summer
was a volunteer campaign to register African voters in Mississippi -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
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March on Selma
The historic march, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s participation in it, raised awareness of the difficulties faced by black voters, and the need for a national Voting Rights Act. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote