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Civil Rights Movement
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Sweatt v Painter
Is a U.S. Supreme Court case that challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation. -
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Brown v Board of Education
It is a case in which the Court decided that the "separate but equal" standards of racial segregation was unconstitutional. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Was a 13-month protest that ended segregated buses in Montgomery. -
Little Rock Nine
They were prevented from enrolling to Little Rock's Central High by the Arkansas Governor Orval Fabus then Eisenhower ordered federal troops to get them to attend school safely. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Its a federal voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the Congress since Civil Rights Act of 1875 -
Greensboro Four
Four African American students sat at a white-only lunch counter and was a non violent sit-it protest. -
Affirmative Action
Required that the government employers not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race color or other. -
March on Birmingham
It was a movement organized to bring attention to the integration efforts of African American. -
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his speech "I have a dream" and the march was to for Congress to pass a new Civil Rights bill -
24th Amendment
it eliminated poll taxes in the federal elections. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination -
Freedom Summer
Is a voter registration project in Mississippi to expand African American voting in the south. -
March on Selma
King organized a march demanding the vote for African Americans, later President Johnson introduce a voting rights bill. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Ended poll taxes and suspended literacy test used to prevent African Americans from voting.