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Sunday, March 15, 2026

Collection of facts about the Civil rights movement

This post is a collection of facts about the Civil rights movement (1954-1968). There are 19 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Attempted to end racial segregation and discrimination in the U.S.
• African Americans were most affected
• American Civil War (1861-1865) led to abolishment of slavery
• Reconstruction Amendments implemented
• Jim Crow laws discriminated against African Americans
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) upheld Jim Crow laws
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954) invalidated segregated-schooling laws
• Martin Luther King Jr. led protests and civil disobedience campaigns
• Montgomery bus boycott (1955-1956)
• Browder v. Gayle (1956) ruled bus segregation unconstitutional
• Children's Crusade march in 1963
• March on Washington in 1963
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Selma to Montgomery march in 1965
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Loving v. Virginia (1967) ruled interracial marriages legal
• Fair Housing Act of 1968
• Black power movement emerged in the 1960's
• Martin Luther King assassinated in 1968