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Black man was refused admission to the school of law of the university of Texas. Congress declared that schools can't be equal when separate
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supreme court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white to unconstitutional
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A political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation of public transportation
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group of 9 African Americans students enrolled in little rock high school which prevented the students from entering school and had to be waled into the school by the military
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Federal voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation by the United States
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Set of laws intended to end and correct the effects of a specific form of discrimination
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Four college students sat in the a cafe and began the nonviolent protest in the city
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One of the most racially divided cities in the united states and the civil right protesters wanted to start by stopping segregation of employments and schools
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250,000 people marched through Washington D.C in support of civil rights for all Americas
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voter registration project in Mississippi part of large effort by civil rights group
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Prohibits both congress and the states from conditioning the rigth to vote in federal elections on payments of a poll tax
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Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination based of race, color ,religion, sex
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Protest marches held in 1965, along highway 54-mile from Selma
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Federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting