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Vote of confidence
Two years later, Dr. King, along with Rosa Parks and other
activists, led another march from Selma, Alabama, to the
state capital of Montgomery to protest restrictions on
blacks voting. In spite of violence from police along
the way, the march resulted in the VOTING RIGHTS ACT,
which made it easier for black people to vote.

Lasting legacy
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was
killed in 1968 by an assassin opposed
to the Civil Rights Movement. Though
relations between the races have
not been easy in the years since,
the United States elected its first
black president, Barack Obama
(above), in 2008. Obama was
reelected in 2012, and swore his
presidential oath on a BIBLE that
had been owned by Dr. King.

How it changed the world

By the way…
The Selma to Montgomery
Though I, Rosa Parks, was
March was one of a handful
the most famous bus
of events that gave
protestor, Claudette Colvin,
African Americans a voice
who refused to give up her
when they had been
seat nine months before
silenced by segregation and
me, was the first.
suffering. Changes in the
law meant that black people
gained more freedom, but
many feel that full equality
with whites has still not
been achieved.

Civil Rights activists
staged PROTESTS in
In 1954, the US Supreme restaurants, swimming
Court declared that schools pools, and churches,
must provide INTEGRATED demanding black people
EDUCATION for all children, be allowed to use these
regardless of skin color. public places.
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