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 * 4. Who/what were the major figures, actions, successes, and set backs in the fight for equality for your group? **


 * The SNCC led demonstrations that led to integration before the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
 * The Freedom Riders rode through the South seeking integration on the bus, railroads and airport terminals.
 * Although the chairperson of the 1963 March on Washington was the venerable labor leader A. Philip Randolph, the man who coordinated the staff, finances, travel arrangements, accommodations, publicity, and logistics was Randolph's close associate, Bayard Taylor Rustin. Rustin had served as a key strategist of the non-violent protest movement since the 1940s.
 * The August 28, 1963, March on Washington riveted the nation's attention. Rather than the anticipated hundred thousand marchers, more than twice that number appeared, astonishing even its organizers.
 * The 1965 Voting Rights Act created a significant change in the status of African Americans throughout the South.
 * Dating from just after the Civil War, a series of constitutional amendments were passed to protect African Americans. Without enforcement by the federal government, however, African Americans, especially those in the South, were gradually denied almost every right of citizenship. The twentieth century brought passage of the weak Civil Rights Act of 1957, the more forceful Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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