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Supreme Court decision that overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson case. The Court ruled that "separate but equal" schools for blacks were unequal and unconstitutional.
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African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The U.S. Supreme Court decided to integrate the Montgomery bus system.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was established to coordinate the action of local protest groups through out the South. It was led by Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee was formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement. Young people emerged as leaders of the sit-in protest movement.
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The first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia.
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Freedom Riders were civil rightts activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern states. African American Freedom Riders tried to use white-only restrooms and lunch counters.
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Its goal was to desegregate an entire community. It resulted un the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans in Albany.
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More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C. for a political rally known as the March on Washington. THe event was to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face.
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The Civil RIghts Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment.
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Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. King had led the civil rights movement since the mid-1950s using both powerful and influential words and non-violent protests to fight segregation.
