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Brown v. Board of Education was a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court case that unanimously declared state-sponsored segregation of public schools unconstitutional on May 17, 1954. This landmark decision effectively overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine established by Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, which had permitted racial segregation. The ruling served as a crucial catalyst for the American Civil Rights Movement. -
The 1955 murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago, was a brutal act of racial violence that galvanized the American Civil Rights Movement. He was lynched in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman, and his killers were acquitted by an all-white jury, sparking national outrage. -
Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, was a pivotal act of defiance that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a landmark event in the American Civil Rights Movement.