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Racial Segregation in schools
The Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation of schools was unconstitutional, which means they ended racial segregation in public schools. However, many schools remained segregated. -
Rosa Parks and bus boycott
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Martin Luther King Jr. heard this and gathered people to boycott the Montgomery bus. This tiggered a civil right movement in the South and put Martin Luther King Jr. into the leader of civil rights movement.
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Four college students in Greensboro
Four college students in Greensboro refuse to leava a Woolworth's "whites only" lunch counter without being served. Their nonviolent demonstration sparks similar "sit-ins" throughout the city and in other states for other African Americans.
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Blocking two black students
Governor George C. Wallace blocks two black students from registering at the University of Alabama. The situation continues until President John F. Kennedy sends the National Guard to the campus. After this, Kennedy announced that he will ask Congress to pass a Civil Rights bill that would end the era of Jim Crow.
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I have a dream
Approximately 250,000 people take part in The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King gives the speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial and states. In the year after the March on Washington, they achieved the ratification of the 24th Amendment to the Constitution and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law so that they can prevent discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.
july 2 1964 day of the week
