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Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Boycott: African Americans did not ride the buses as protest.
- Rosa Parks: Didn't give up her seat to a white passenger and got arrested.
- A women who the U.S. Congress called "The Mother of The Freedom Movement."
- A black racism protest bus got blown up down south.
- Boycott: African Americans did not ride the buses as protest.
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First Lunch Counter Sit-In
- Sit-In: Siting in a public facility as a means of peaceful protesting.
- Jim Crow Laws: Laws that made racial segregation okay in the south.
- African American College kids went into café everyday.
- These students were often attacked by white customers and store owners.
- Sit-In: Siting in a public facility as a means of peaceful protesting.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Plessy v. Ferguson: 1896 court case that determined separate but equal facilities.
- Originally Kennedy's idea, President Johnson was able to get passed.
- Civil Right Act banned discrimination.
- Plessy v. Ferguson: 1896 court case that determined separate but equal facilities.
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Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
- Thurgood Marshall: An Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. -
Quality of Racial Equality Founded
- Civil Rights:
