Question

Over the past century, Black Americans and Mexican Americans have overcome many obstacles to achieve and protect equal rights. In 3–5 sentences, evaluate which policy, movement, or Supreme Court case you feel was the most significant in the fight for equality.
You could pick from the following to focus on: (Unit 4 Lesson 8)
Brown v. Board of Education
Removed separate but equal
Allowed for integration of schools
Moved toward allowing equal financing of schools
Voting Right Acts of 1965
Ended Jim Crow segregation
Ensured equality at the ballot box
Ended voting limits
NAACP
An organization that pushed for equal rights
Helped pass the Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964
first law that addressed civil rights since the end of the Civil War
made discrimination illegal