The Struggle Continued

     I am about to tell you about the 1950s African Americans had to worked to change laws that didn’t protect the civil rights. In 1954 the Supreme Court announced that the law that made separate schools for African American and white children were illegal.  In 1955 the police arrested Rose Parks, a black person, because she broke the law by refusing to give her bus seat for a white man. Because of Martin Luther King Jrs courage many people stopped ridding public busses. In the year of 1956 the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public buses was illegal. In 1963 more than 200,000 people all together came to Washington DC to demonstrate for equal rights! The voting rights acts prevented discrimination in voting in 1965. In the 1960s women and men were not treated equally. Even though men and women did the same work men got paid more. A girl named Betty Fredon helped start a new organization for women. Migrant workers wanted better pay, health care and education for their children. A law was said that no one can refuse to hire people with disabilities and new buildings must have access for everyone.

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JHoughton Mifflin United States History pg 530-535J

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