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A United States Supreme Court case that declared state laws establishing seperate public schools for blacks and whites.
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Local authorities in Montgomery, Alabama arrested Rosa Parks when she refused to give up her seat on the bus.
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Inspired by Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public bus system of Montgomery, Alabama.
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With the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, Governor Orval Faubus brought in the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school.
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This was the first civil rights legislation since reconstruction. The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. It also established a federal Civil Rights Commission.
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Four NC Agricultural and Technical College students entered F.W. Woolworth Co. department store in Greensboro, NC and refused to leave until they were served. This sit-in was the first one, and it sparked many across the United States.
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More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington D.C. for a political rally for jobs and freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country.
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This speech was delivered by Martin Luther King Junior at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington. In this speech, he calls for an end to racism in the United States and for civil and economic rights.
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This is considered one of the crowning legislative achievement of the civil rights movement. It ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a sniper's bullet while standing on the second-floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
