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Reform of Civil Rights

United States · Politics / Civil Rights. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1964–2005Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1964

Martin Luther King1964

Politics / Civil Rights

Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing segregation in public accommodations and discrimination in education and employment

2005

Rosa Parks26 January 2005

Montgomery · Politics / Civil Rights

Parks act of civil disobedience inspired blacks in Montgomery to boycott the citys buses for more than a year and to successfully challenge the Jim Crow laws that confined them to second-class status in the city. Condoleezza Rice Attends a memorial service in Montgomery, Alabama, in Rices home state, for Rosa Parks, an inspiration for the American Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Parks25 October 2005

Montgomery · Politics / Civil Rights

American civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks dies age 92 years old, 50 years earlier, Parks had famously refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus and in doing so catalyzed the American civil rights movement

Names involved

Martin Luther KingRosa Parks

Provenance

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