African Americans continued to live as second class citizens in the 1950's and.
1960's, especially in the South, despite the Fourteenth Amendment and the.
Fifteenth Amendment, which prohibited states from denying anyone the.
right to vote due to race. States passed laws directed at separating the races.
and keeping blacks from the polls. During these times, African Americans.
and other Americans led an organized and strong movement to fight for.
racial equality. The movement often met with strong opposition, such as in.
Birmingham, Alabama, where police sprayed protestors with high pressure.
fire hoses. .
In the early 1900's W.E.B. Du Bois established the NAACP, (National.
Association for the Advancement of Colored People) which fought to end.
segregation, the separation of people on the basis of race. In the case of.
Brown vs. Board of Education, the Supreme Court struck down segregation.
as unconstitutional. .
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a seamstress and an NAACP.
officer, took a seat in the front row of the "colored" section of a Montgomery.
bus. As the bus filled up, the driver ordered Parks and three other African.
American passengers to empty the row they were occupying so that a white.
man could sit down without having to sit next to any African Americans. The.
leaders of the African American community, including many ministers,.
formed the Montgomery Improvement Association to organize a boycott. .
They elected the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, 26 year old Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., to head the group. The boycott proved to the world.
that common African Americans could unite and organize a successful.
protest movement.
By 1965, the leading civil rights groups began to drift apart. .
Constitutional and legal changes guaranteed the civil rights of all Americans.
under the laws. Congress passed the most important civil rights legislation.
since the Reconstruction, including the Civil Rights Act of 1968, a law that.
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