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Truman's effort to desegregate the military
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- Overturned Plessy v Ferguson
- Ends Segregation in Public Schools
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- Led by Martin Luther King Jr
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- Led by Martin Luther King Jr
- Organized marches and boycotts
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- Court ruled that black students were allowed to go Little Rock Central High School
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Four students from North Carolina A&T University demonstrated a form of public disobedience
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- Million Man March
- Led to passage of the Civil Rights Act
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Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Acts that ends segration public places
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-"Bloody Sunday"
- Shown on Television -
Lyndon B. Johnson signs this act to end literacy tests for voting
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- First African American Supreme Court Justice
- Appointed By Lyndon B. Johnson
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- Assassinated by James Earl Ray
- Memphis, Tennessee
