- Attempted to end racial segregation and discrimination in the U.S.
- African Americans were most affected
- American Civil War (1861-1865) led to abolishment of slavery
- Reconstruction Amendments implemented
- Jim Crow laws discriminated against African Americans
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) upheld Jim Crow laws
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954) invalidated segregated-schooling laws
- Martin Luther King Jr. led protests and civil disobedience campaigns
- Montgomery bus boycott (1955-1956)
- Browder v. Gayle (1956) ruled bus segregation unconstitutional
- Children's Crusade march in 1963
- March on Washington in 1963
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Selma to Montgomery march in 1965
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Loving v. Virginia (1967) ruled interracial marriages legal
- Fair Housing Act of 1968
- Black power movement emerged in the 1960's
- Martin Luther King assassinated in 1968
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Collection of facts about the Civil rights movement
This post is a collection of facts about the Civil rights movement (1654-1968). There are 19 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia