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In Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. -
she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. -
MLK and Rosa parks launched the boycott to not use public busses -
segregation in busses was declared illegal -
Nine black students enrolled in central high school in Arkansas -
4 black students sat at a whites-only lunch they were dragged and beaten up -
Ruby bridges as the first black student to enroll in an all-white school -
WHites and blacks rode the bus together to prove that they don't care about that law -
Held a peaceful march and MLK gave his famous speech i have a dream -
prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
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Rage over the verdict sparked the four days of the L.A. riots, beginning in the mostly Black South Central neighborhood. -
In October 1995, hundreds of thousands of Black men gathered in Washington, D.C. for the Million Man March, one of the largest demonstrations of its kind in the capital’s history. -
the first African American to hold that position—the Vietnam veteran and four–star U.S. Army general Colin Powell -
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States; he is the first African American to hold that office. -
The term “Black lives matter” was first used by organizer Alicia Garza in a July 2013 -
In January 2021, Kamala Harris became the first woman and first woman of color to become vice president of the United States. -
The movement swelled to a critical juncture on May 25, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic when 46-year-old George Floyd died after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by police officer Derek Chauvin.