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A procession of African Americans carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias at the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Photo by Warren K. Leffler (Library of Congress)
A procession of African Americans carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias at the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Photo by Warren K. Leffler (Library of Congress)

Often used to describe the struggles of black Americans between 1945 and 1970 to end discrimination and racial segregation. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to guarantee basic civil rights for all Americans, regardless of race, after nearly a decade of nonviolent protests and marches, ranging from the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott to the student-led sit-ins of the 1960s to the March on Washington in 1963.

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