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Brown vs. Board of Education
Declared that segregation in schools was unconstitutional. -
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s sit-in and arrest
About 280 students plus Martin Luther King, Jr. participated in a sit-in at a lunch counter in Atlanta to protest racism. All participants were arrested. -
Signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national, and religious minorities.
