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The campaign lasted from December 5,1955 the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person to December 20, 1956.
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The racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas.
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four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their request was refused.
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States.
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On March 250,00 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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The Birmingham campaign, or Birmingham movement, was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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On 1964 the civil right law in the United States that out laws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War.
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