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Civil Rights Movement
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A mass movement in the 1950s and 1960s to guarantee the civil rights of African Americans.
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Civil Rights Movement
A mass movement in the 1950s and 1960s to guarantee the civil rights of African Americans.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Case which reversed Plessy v. Ferguson and ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional
Civil Disobediance
A nonviolent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust laws.
Rosa Parks
African American civil rights activist whose 1955 refusal to give up her seat to a white person led to the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott and helped launch the civil rights movement
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The black population of Montgomery, Alabama refused to ride buses for a year, protesting segregation. Sparked by Rosa Parks.