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The civil rights movement.
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Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision of 1954.
When the supreme court ruled that segeration in public schools was unconstauional and helped begin the process of intergrating schools. -
Rosa Parks gets arrested.
Rosa Parks gets arrested for not giving for seat on the bus to a white man. -
Martin Luther King Jr.'s House get's bombed.
It showed just how strongly people didn't want intergration to happen. -
Greensboro Sit-In
The Greensboro sit-in was when four african americans sat in the whites only section in Woolworth store. -
Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream Speech."
This speech brought greater attention to the Civil rights movement and really explained was the civil rights movement was about. -
Civil Rights Act Passed
Made it illegal to have segergation of (race,reigion and gender) in public areas. It also made equal empoyment possible. -
Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights act allowed all african americans the right to vote.
