What contributed to the collapse of the Jim Crow system from 1954 to 1965?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
a. In Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court struck down the “separate but equal” policy in education and mandated the desegregation of school districts.
b. The Montgomery bus boycott in 1955–1956, triggered by Rosa Parks’s arrest for refusing to move to the back of the bus, led to a Supreme Court ruling that declared Montgomery’s segregated buses unconstitutional.
c. The sit-in became a form of protest that brought public attention to the injustices of the Jim Crow system.
d. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 gave impetus to a civil rights bill in Congress.
e. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended the Jim Crow system of segregation.
f. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited methods that had been used to prevent African Americans from voting.
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