Did America achieve equality in the 1950s and

Did America achieve equality in the 1950s and 60s?

‘Jim Crow’ states in the 1950s (colored red)

May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education unanimous 9-0 Supreme Court decision

We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but

equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

Confrontation at Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas, September 1957.

15-year old Elizabeth Eckford tries to ignore the abuse of the 1000-strong crowd in Little Rock, 1957.

Black and white SNCC protesters in a sit-in at a segregated restaurant in Jackson, Mississippi, June 1963.

President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act barring discrimination in housing and employment.

July 2, 1964

The 1965 Voting Rights Act eliminates literacy tests.

Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968.

Did America achieve equality in the 1950s and 60s?

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