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Barbara Johns led 450 students in Virginia on strike to fight for school equality. She was only 16!
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This decision overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and said that segregated schools were illegal.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man and was jailed. Soon after, African Americans in Montgomery didn't ride the bus for nearly 400 days.
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African American students sat at "white only" lunch counters until they were arrested.
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Whites and African Americans rode buses around the country sitting next to each other like equals.
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African Americans started protested against many places that were segregated.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives a speech at the largest protest (at that point). There were over 200,000 people there.
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This act ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination.
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African Americans marched for voting rights.
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This act prohibited racial discrimination in voting.
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This act banned discrimination in housing.
