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Chapter 22 : The Civil Rights Era |
In the 1950s, many African Americans renewed their fight for full equality and an end to segregation and discrimination. Their efforts were aided by the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education that stated separation by race was inherently unequal. A quiet pioneer of the civil rights movement was Rosa Parks, who in 1955 refused to give her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., emerged as a powerful and inspiring leader for nonviolent protest against unjust segregation laws.
Inspired by the energy of civil rights leaders, women and other minority groups began to work for change in their own right.
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