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The Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. -
Supreme Court case that unanimously declared state-sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional, overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine
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the brutal murder of 14-year-old Black teen Emmett Till in Mississippi, after he allegedly offended a white woman in her familys store -
Refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, ignited the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal 381-day protest led by Martin Luther King Jr. that crippled the city's buses and led to a Supreme Court decision. -
A 14-year-old who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman.
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nine African American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School -
was a pivotal nonviolent protest against segregation where four Black college students sat at a "whites-only" lunch counter. -
The challenge to segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals. -
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States.
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prohibits both Congress and the states from requiring the payment of a poll tax or any other tax to vote in federal elections. -
a massive peaceful protest that brought over 250,000 people to Washington, D.C., to demand civil and economic rights for African Americans. -
a massive peaceful protest that brought over 250,000 people to Washington, D.C., to demand civil and economic rights for African Americans
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A bombing of a Birmingham church by the KKK claims the lives of four African-American girls. -
A passionate, nearly 7,000-word response, written from a jail cell, defending nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against segregation, countering criticism from white clergymen who called him an "outsider" and urged patience. -
outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, ending segregation in public places, ensuring equal employment opportunities, and integrating schools and public facilities -
outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, ending segregation in public places, ensuring equal employment opportunities, and integrating schools and public facilities.
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prohibits both Congress and the states from requiring the payment of a poll tax or any other tax to vote in federal elections.
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a landmark federal law that outlawed discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests and poll taxes -
The brutal attack on peaceful civil rights marchers by state troopers and local police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, as they began their 54-mile march to the state capital, Montgomery, for voting rights. -
a landmark federal law that outlawed discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests and poll taxes, ensuring the 15th Amendment's promise of racial equality in voting was upheld, particularly for African Americans in the South.
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The Court unanimously struck down state laws banning interracial marriage.