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Required University of Missouri Law School to either admit African Americans or build another fully equal law school.
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Banned racial discrimination in defense industry and government offices established Fair Employment Practices Committee to investigate violations.
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Ruled that segregation on interests buses violated federal law and created an "undue burden" on interstate commerce.
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Declared "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" and overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and the "separate but equal" doctrine as applied to public schools.
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Ordered school desegregation to begin with "all deliberate speed," but offered no timetable
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.
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Created Civil Rights Department within the Justice Department.
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The March on Washington was a massive protest march. The event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s now-iconic “I Have A Dream” speech.
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Prohibited discrimination in employment and most places of public accommodation on basis of race, color, religion,sex or national origin, outlawed bias in federally assisted programs, created Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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Authorized federal supervision of voter registration in states and countries where fewer than half of voting age residents were registered, outlawed literacy tests
