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Supreme court ruled segregation was unconstitutional in public schools. They said it violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.
Brown Verses the board of education , was one of the main reasons this was brought up and finally ruled illegal.

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Rosa Parks went against the bus segregation law.
What Rosa parks did caused many African Americans in Montgomery to began protest and organizing bus boycotts.
Most of the movements were led by Martin Luther King Jr , and it lasted over a year and led to Alabama desegregating the buses.

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In 1957 Congress passed the first civil rights law since reconstruction.
It was originally intended to protect the rights of African American voters.
It registered about 2 million new African American voters.

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Nine African American students won the court-case to go to Central High School after dealing with racism from angry white families  and became known as the Little Rock Nine.
During this time most states weren't letting African Americans attend certain high schools even if it was against the law to have public schools segregation. The Arkansas governor ordered the national guard to stop the 9 students from entering the school , but president Eisenhower intervened and sent the military to go and protect the children in the school.

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Birmingham enforced segregation and had a reputation of a lot of racial violence.
Governor Wallace he says that he wants segregation always.
Eventually the governor regretted what he said and asked for forgiveness saying he was sorry.

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This prohibits the discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin.
It also bans the segregation in public including restaurants and buses.

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3% of African Americans were registered to vote.
Johnson proposed the voting rights act of 1965.
There was also protest led by MLK to arch so it would be known that the African Americans weren't allowed to vote in the south and that needed to be changed.

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Betty Friedan a national women's. Organization to promote women into mainstream America.
This organization responded to many issues dealing with women , It demanded for greater education. Opportunities for women and denounced the exclusion of women from certain professions and political positions.

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The black panther urged African Americans to arm themselves and to confront the white society.
In Oakland Ca, they offered hot breakfast programs in schools ,
they had adult literacy classes, summer programs for the youth, and awareness of police brutality.

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Martin Luther King jr went to Memphis Tennessee to support a strike of African American workers.
He was shot by a sniper on April 4th while standing on the balcony of his house.
Congress later passed the Civil Rights act of 1968 outlawing discrimination in housing sales and rentals.