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Sweatt v Painter
Black man was refused admission to the school of law of the university of Texas. Congress declared that schools can't be equal when separate -
brown v board of education
supreme court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white to unconstitutional -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation of public transportation -
Little rock nine
group of 9 African Americans students enrolled in little rock high school which prevented the students from entering school and had to be waled into the school by the military -
Civil Rights of 1957
Federal voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation by the United States -
Affirmative action
Set of laws intended to end and correct the effects of a specific form of discrimination -
Greensboro four
Four college students sat in the a cafe and began the nonviolent protest in the city -
March of Birmingham
One of the most racially divided cities in the united states and the civil right protesters wanted to start by stopping segregation of employments and schools -
March on Washington
250,000 people marched through Washington D.C in support of civil rights for all Americas -
freedom summer
voter registration project in Mississippi part of large effort by civil rights group -
24th Amendment
Prohibits both congress and the states from conditioning the rigth to vote in federal elections on payments of a poll tax -
Civil Rights Acts of 1964
Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination based of race, color ,religion, sex -
March of Selma
Protest marches held in 1965, along highway 54-mile from Selma -
Voting rights acts of 1965
Federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting