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A U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896
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landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.
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The desegregation of Central High School In Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Federal voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960,[2] which led to the Woolworth department store chain
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first created from Executive Order 10925, which was signed by President John F. Kennedy
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Kelsey was one of thousands of young people who participated in a series of non-violent demonstrations known as the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama,
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Jobs and Freedom, political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress.
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African Americans in the South faced significant discrimination and could not vote for elected officials that would work to end the discrimination.
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voters registration project in Mississippi, part of a larger effort by civil rights groups such as the congress on racial equality, the student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee to expand black voting in the south.
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ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin,
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When state troopers met the demonstrators at the edge of the city by the Edmund Pettus Bridge, that day became known as "Bloody Sunday."
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It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.