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Brown v. Board of Education
"Brown v. Board of Education" refers to a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955. Her act of defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and became a defining moment in the civil rights movement -
Sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter
A "sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter" refers to a pivotal nonviolent protest during the Civil Rights Movement where African American students would sit at a segregated lunch counter at a Woolworth's department store, refusing to leave until served, often in defiance of "Whites Only" policies