Civil Rights Movement

  The Civil Rights Movement for racial equality in the United States, that through nonviolent protest broke the pattern of racial segregation in the South, achieved equal rights legislation for African Americans. Following the U.S. Supreme Courtdecision in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka 1954), African American and white supporters attempted toend entrenched segregationist practices.  When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, an African  

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