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The Civil Rights Movement

1955: , an African American woman, was for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person in a in Montgomery, Alabama. This created the Montgomery Bus which intended to oppose the city's policy of racial on its buses. It ended in 1956 when a United States Supreme Court decision declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be . , Jr, the leader of the movement, became famous nationally. 1964-65: Passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned in employment practices and public accommodations; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights. In 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr was awarded the .

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