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| Brown v. Board of Education | U.S. Supreme Court declared that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | African Americans began organizing protests; started by Rosa Parks |
| Little Rock School Crisis | Eisenhower sends troops to desegregate Arkansas school |
| sit-ins and freedom rides | nonviolent protests used to desegregate public facilities such as lunch counters |
| civil rights protest in Birmingham | Americans watch peaceful demonstrators brutally attacked on television |
| March on Washington | Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech |
| civil rights protest in Selma | Martin Luther King, Jr. led a march in Alabama to build support for a new voting rights law |
| assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. | was in Memphis to support a strike by African American sanitation workers |
| 1964 Civil Rights Act | most comprehensive civil rights law Congress had ever enacted |
| 1965 Voting Rights Act | Suspended discriminatory devices, such as literacy tests |
| growth of the African American middle class | civil rights movement improved African American education and employment |
