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Protests
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Brown vs. Board of Education
1954 Supreme Court case in which racial segregation in public schools was outlawed -
Woolworth's sit-in
On Feb. 1, 1960, four students from all-black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into a Woolworth five-and-dime with the intention of ordering lunch.
But the manager of the Greensboro Woolworth had intentions of his own — to maintain the lunch counter's strict whites-only policy. -
Freedom Rides
1961 event organized by CORE and SNCC in which an interracial group of civil rights activists tested southern states' compliance to the Supreme Court ban of segregation on interstate buses -
Birmingham Children's March and boycott
The Children's Crusade was the name bestowed upon a march by hundreds of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 2, May 3, and May 4, 1963, during the American Civil Rights Movement's Birmingham Campaign. -
March on Washington
1963 civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C., in which protesters called for “jobs and freedom” -
Selma to Montgomery March
Protest in 1955–1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama -
Montgomery bus boycott
Protest in 1955–1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama
