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THE MOVE TOWARDS EQUALITY

               CAUSES

  • 1955 Rosa Parks is arrested
  • 1955 Montgomery bus boycott
  • 1957 SCLC is organized
  • 1963 March on Washington

              EFFECTS

  •  1962 James Meredith enters University of Mississippi
  • 1967 Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court
  • 1968 Shirley Chisholm elected to House
  • 1972 Barbara Jordan and Andrew Young are first Southern African Americans elected to House since 1901

Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman to serve in the House of Representatives, wrote:
 
     "When I decided to run for Congress, I knew I would encouter, both anti-black and anti-feminist sentiments. What surprised me was the much greater virulence of sex discrimination."

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