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On august 28th in 1941 250,000 people marched in Washington D.C for civil rights, employment, decent housing and voting rights. -
Brown vs Board of Education was a Supreme Court case in which the court ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unjust. -
Public buses were rigidly segregated in the South. If a bus was full, black passengers had to make way for whites. In 1955, however, activists in Montgomery, Alabama, organized a successful bus boycott and achieved integration on city buses. -
In 1957 nine black students challenged segregation by enrolling at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. But there was still people opposed to this and there were angry mobs that tried to stop them, but with that the federal government backed them up. -
On February 1st of 1960 for African American students from North Carolina’s agricultural and technical collage sat down at a lunch counter in the Woolworth’s drugstore in Greensboro. And tried to order food but failed when the waitress refused to serve them saying they only serve white customers. -
In 1960 Supreme Court ruled that segregation in interstate transport was illegal, so the civil rights group organized Freedom rides. So on May 4 1961 seven blacks and 6 whites boarded two buses in Washington and headed to the south. But when the first bus reached Anniston and Alabama the Freedom riders was attacked by a white mob. -
In 1963 protesters one including Martin Luther King Jr. were arrested and put in jail. And during that time King wrote his famous, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” -
The civil rights act of 1964 banned discrimination on race, sex, religion and or national origin. -
In august congress passed the, Voting Rights Act of 1965. The act outlawed literacy tests and other tactic used to deny African Americans the right to vote.