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This was a landmark Supreme Court case. The justices ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
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He was murdered for flirting with a white woman 4 days earlier. -
Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man. -
This was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. -
This was when black students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch corner. -
This was when civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States.
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This was when about 250,000 people gathered to march as a non-violent protest. -
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a white supremacist terrorist bombing, targeting people of color. -
This was a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on origin, race, color, gender, and religion. -
This is a form that prohibits racial discrimination in voting in the United States. -
Local officials and state troopers attacked the unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear gas after they passed over the county line.
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The Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits governments from discriminating against individuals because of their race.