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This court case that declared that separate schools for blacks and whites was unconstitutional. After the case, Thurgood Marshall became the 1st African-American to serve in the Supreme Court.
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This was a movement in Albany, GA. The purpose was to desegregate transportation, but it went even broader. It resulted in a failure.
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Martin Luther King Jr. led more than 250,000 people in a movement at Washington, D.C. This is where he gave his famous "I Have A Dream" speech. The purpose was to convince the government to pass a Civil Rights Act.
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After the March on Washington, President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Congress to pass a law that banned segregation. In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed, and Jim Crow Laws were destroyed for good.
