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Harry Truman
Harry Truman ends segregation in the armed forces -
Brown v. Board of Education
ended racial segregation
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Rosa Parks
She refuses to give up a bus seat to a white man. Which sparks a year long Montgomery Bus Protests -
The Little Rock Nine
Protesters blocked nine black students from getting into the little rock high school in Arkansas -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. Title VII of the Act establishes the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to help prevent workplace discrimination.