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A civil right movement where the Supreme Court decides that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation. -
The Montgomery bus boycott was a protest for the bus system for racial segregation where African Americans did not ride the bus to work to school or to where ever they had to go to It had lasted 381 days. -
The Little Rock Nine were nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School, the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
The sit in’s started when four African Americans students sat in at a Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina it was nonviolent movement of the U.S. civil rights event. -
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions. -
A peaceful protest that was led to police dogs and fire hoses in for the battle for freedom and equality. -
The civil rights movement for march on Washington had brought over 200,000 people to the nation's capitol to protest racial discrimination and show support for civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress. -
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.