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Civil Rights Movement

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  • Plessy v. Ferguson is passed into law

    The law made racial segregation legal, often using the saying "separate but equal."
  • The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is formed

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is formed

    "To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination."
  • First sit-in to protest racial segregation at a library in Alexandria, Virginia

    First sit-in to protest racial segregation at a library in Alexandria, Virginia

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

  • Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to surrender her bus seat; this was the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to surrender her bus seat; this was the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Second-wave feminism began, lasting until 1982

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial

    Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated

    Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964 is enacted; discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin is outlawed

  • LGBT Rights movement begins

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