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The Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation was unconstitutional in schools. It helped establish that "separate but equal" was not truly equal. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. She was then arrested and fined for that. This was the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which protested segregated seating on Alabama busses. -
A group of nine black students were enrolled in a formerly all-white school to test the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. -
A group of four black college students refused to leave a "whites-only" lunch counter after being denied service. This inspired more sit-ins across the south. -
250,000 people march in Washington D.C. by the Lincoln Memorial for jobs and freedom. Martin Luther King gave his “I Have A Dream” speech to the crowd. -
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prevent discrimination in the workforce due to race, color, sex, religion, or national origin. -
600 people walk from Selma to Montgomery to protest black voter suppression. They were blocked and attacked by local police. They then went to court and were successful in fighting for the legal right to march. -
President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prevent literacy tests from being used as a voting requirement. -
President Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act to provide equal housing opportunities to all people no matter their race, religion, or national origin.