Civil rights movement
May 17, 1954 – August 1, 1968 · Era in United States
US social movement, 1954-1968, against legalized racial segregation and disenfranchisement of African Americans. Nonviolent campaigns - Montgomery boycott, sit-ins, Birmingham, the 1963 March on Washington, Selma - won three landmark laws: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Legal discrimination largely ended; informal racism persisted.
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Battles and events 2
- Brown v. Board of Education May 17, 1954
- Ole Miss riot of 1962 September 1962
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