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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. They were violating 14th amendment
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a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
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was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
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the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction
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A group of students( african america ) sat in a only whites dinner
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an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination
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a movement led in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) which sought to bring the national attention to the efforts of local black leaders to desegregate public failities
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The highlight of the march, which attracted 250,000 people, was Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
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prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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also known as the the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive sponsored by civil rights organizations including the Congress on Racial Equality
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin
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Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama,
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the right of voting