1. The Civil Rights Act of 1964. sought to end the series of laws in the south known as Jim Crow Laws.
2. The case of Brown V. Board of Education (1954) resulted in a ruling that stated segregation in American public schools was inherently unequal. The Warren Court ruled that the doctrine of “separate but equal” (Jim Crow Laws) was unconstitutional because it stamped an inherent badge of inferiority on black students.