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The Brown vs Board of Education event was when the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools in the US, overruling the "separate but equal" principle.
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Rosa Park sat down in a bus seat and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, she was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black people to relinquish seats to white people when the bus was full. Her arrest sparked a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man.
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The Little Rock 9 were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. They made their way through a crowd shouting obscenities and even throwing objects. Then the governor ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School. Later that was changed.
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Sit-Ins were non-violent protests. refusing to leave until their demands are met.
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern US in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions. There were more than 400 volunteers who traveled throughout the South on regularly scheduled buses for seven months.
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The protests in Birmingham began with a boycott led by Shuttlesworth meant to pressure business leaders to open employment to people of all races, and end segregation in public facilities, restaurants, schools, and stores. When local business and governmental leaders resisted the boycott, SCLC agreed to assist
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JFK served as the 35th president. While riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas Texas he was assassinated by a man named Lee Harvey.
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
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the Mississippi Summer Project was a volunteer campaign in the United States. It was held to help attempt to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.
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The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression; they were part of a broader voting rights movement underway in Selma and throughout the American South.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He was/is an inspiration to many people around the world and will forever be.
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