Major events contributing to the success of the civil rights act

  • 14th Amendment passed

    Prohibits any state from taking away the rights or privileges of bing a citizen
  • Plessy V Ferguson

    Separate but equal facilities for each race
  • Brown V board of education

    Taking away segregation in public schools
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    Montgomery bus boycott

    After Rosa Parks arrest no black would ride the bus
  • March On Washington

    More then 200,000 blacks gathered at Lincoln memorial to hear speeches
  • 24th Amendment passed

    Blacks can vote without paying