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Supreme Court case desecrated public schools everywhere because racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. -
Rosa park actions began the organized Montgomery Bus Boycott and Martian Luther king Jr became the leader. The boycott lasted 13-month. The protest ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Integration of the schools were treated in Arkansas. President Eisenhower sent in army troops to make sure the Nine black student who joined an integrate central high school were allowed in the school. -
Four African-American students that went to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University had a sit-in at a white-only lunch counter inside a Greensboro. -
Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South to protest against segregation. They wanted to change state laws that enforced segregation in transportation -
Hundred people would march together to protest against segregation. There different kind of protests there were sit-ins, marches, and boycotts. -
More than 200,000 thousand people from around the U.S. came to Washington, D.C. because they wanted an end to segregation, fair wages and economic justice, voting rights, education. Martin Luther king Jr gave the famous “i have a dream” speech. -
An act that forbids discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. An act were citizens would have to be treated equally and fairly by the law. -
The law was signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. The law was made to put an end to discriminatory laws relating to a person's right to vote on the federal level.