Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement was a political, legal and social struggle to gain full citizenship rights for African Americans. It was a challenge to segregation, the system of laws and customs separating African Americans and whites.
==Racial Segregation: The Jim Crow Era==
==Organizations to Protest Segregation==
==Demonstrations and Protests==
===Montgomery Bus Boycott===
===School Desegregation===
====Brown V. Board of Education====
====Little Rock Nine====
===The Greensboro Four===
==Legislation==
===Civil Rights Act of 1964===
===Voting Rights Act of 1965===
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