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Digital History: Discrimination in Public Accommodations [Pdf]

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Segregation and Jim Crow laws codified a color line in the United States. African-Americans began pushing back against segregation in the 1950s and 1960s. Read about the non-violent actions taken and how these actions resulted in the passage of the Public Accomodations Act, and eventually the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Suggested student exercises are provided. [pdf]

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jim crow laws, rosa parks, segregation

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bus boycott, non-violent resistance, civil rights act of 1964, digital history, greensboro sit-in, martin luther king, jr., medgar evers, president john kennedy, public accomodations act, sit-ins, strom thurmond, challenges to segregation

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