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The US supreme court decided that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. Many people were angry about this movement but this allowed for many other civil rights acts in the future. -
After Rosa Parks got arrested for resisting to give up her seat on the bus, Martin Luther King Jr. lead a march to boycott public transportation in response to racial segregation on buses. -
She was the first African American to go to an all-white school. She faced horrible racism but fearlessly went to school every day regardless of that. It inspired many other black parents to send their children to these schools and the racism slowly faded away. -
This movement took place in Albany Georgia to protest many segregation policies there. This movement went on for a year but eventually disbanded due to many people getting arrested with no progress done on ending segregation. -
The goal of this movement was to end economic policies that were discriminatory against another race. People would boycott certain businesses that only hire white people or have white only bathrooms. -
Martin Luther King gave his iconic speech "I have a dream" and over 300,000 people showed up to Washington D.C to protest jobs and freedoms for all African Americans -
Bloody Sunday was an event where people tried to protest voting rights for African Americans to state troopers violently beating up protesters -
This movement was to protest for equal housing and educational facilities. This involved many rallies, marches, and boycotts. Many people were injured but it inspired the fair housing act. -
This was an anti-war campaign to try to get America out of the war and to stop bombing Vietnam. Many speeches, rallies, and marches were able to persuade Americans to try to stop the war as well. -
The goal of this campaign was to provide more rights for poor Americans from all different backgrounds. Ever since then, the government enacted many acts to end hunger and provide extra aid for citizens.