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Civil rights act of 1964 |
An act requiring that people be given equal access to public facilities throughout the nation regardless of race, it also outlawed discrimination in employment forcing most public agencies to integrate their workforces after 1964 |
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Boycott |
A protest in which people refuse to buy certain goods or use certain services until specific conditions are met |
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Brown vs. board of education |
A case decided in the Supreme Court in 1954 that was focused on the desegregation of public schools that also overturned the "separate-but-equal" provisions by Plessy vs. Ferguson case |
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Ruby Bridges |
One of the 1st black children to attend an integrated school and the state of Louisiana |
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Voting rights act of 1965 |
Legislation that required Southern States to allow African Americans to return to the voting rolls in that outlawed poll taxes |
