In 1955, in Montgomery, Rosa Parks refused to let her seat on the
bus to a white person and she was
decided to
a bus boycott to
segregation in buses. It
Martin Luther King
against
from 1955 to 1956.
to work with other means of transport.
a whole year, all the black community
Laving
Little Rock Nine
In 1957,
the school year, in the town called Little
Rock, 9 black students
accepted no Blacks and
a High School who
protected by the Federal
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Army to
Rock Nine".
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the law. They were called "the Little
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To kill a mockingbird
Harper Lee wrote her novel "To kill a mockingbird" in 1960 and it became a great success immediately.
in 1962, the film came out and many people
Two years
it.
The Birmingham Campaign
In 1962, black leaders
hundreds of people were
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marches, sit-ins and kneel-ins and
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to prison even children. Non-violent
people and children being attacked by policemen and dogs became
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national news. Martin Luther Ling
a famous letter in prison.
The march on Washington for jobs and freedom
Six main leaders including Martin Luther King planned
to
a march on August 1963, one
hundred years after the
march was a
of slavery. The
way of
Between 200,000 and 300,000 people came to Washington. Martin Luther King
speech when he said he
his famous
a dream of black people and white people being equal. The Civil Rights
movement got greater national attention.
The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act
One year
in 1964, the Civil Rights Act
passed. It
illegal segregation
iscrimination because of race. In 1965, the Voting Right Act declared illegal any measures to
Back people from


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