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Civil Rights Movement
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Sweatt v Painter
A U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 -
Brown v Board of Education
landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Montgomery bus boycott
a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. -
Little Rock Nine
The desegregation of Central High School In Little Rock, Arkansas.
Governor Orval Faubus prevents nine African American students from integrating the high school. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Federal voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. -
Greensboro Four
a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960,[2] which led to the Woolworth department store chain -
Affirmative Action
first created from Executive Order 10925, which was signed by President John F. Kennedy -
March on Birmingham
Kelsey was one of thousands of young people who participated in a series of non-violent demonstrations known as the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama, -
March on Washington
Jobs and Freedom, political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress. -
24th Amendment
African Americans in the South faced significant discrimination and could not vote for elected officials that would work to end the discrimination. -
Freedom Summer
voters registration project in Mississippi, part of a larger effort by civil rights groups such as the congress on racial equality, the student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee to expand black voting in the south. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, -
March on Selma
When state troopers met the demonstrators at the edge of the city by the Edmund Pettus Bridge, that day became known as "Bloody Sunday." -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.