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U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal"
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Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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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.
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the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas.
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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.
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Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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is the policy protecting members of a disadvantaged group who suffer or have suffered from discrimination within a culture
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to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama
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planned a mass march on Washington to protest blacks’ exclusion from World War II defense jobs and New Deal programs.
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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
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was a volunteer campaign to register African voters in Mississippi
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ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin
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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.
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to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote