If you can answer at least 3, It's ok. 10. Explain how each of the following events contributed to desegregation:

-Plessy vs. Ferguson

-Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka

-Montgomery, Alabama/Rosa Parks (1955)

-Little Rock, Arkansas, (1957)

-Civil Rights Act of 1960

1.)-Plessy vs. Ferguson. Ferguson affect segregation in the United States? Plessy v. Ferguson strengthened racial segregation in public accommodations and services throughout the United States and ensured its continuation for more than half a century by giving it constitutional sanction. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brownv.

2.) -Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka.  Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

3.) -Montgomery, Alabama/Rosa Parks (1955). In 1955, Rosa Parks entered a bus in Alabama. ... She was arrested for not moving to the segregated part of the bus. Her refusal to move helped start the Civil Rights Movement. She is a national hero for the efforts to create equal rights.

4.)  -Little Rock, Arkansas, (1957). On September 4, 1957, the first day of classes at Central High, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the black students' entry into the high school. ... Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school. It drew national attention to the civil rights movement.

5.) -Civil Rights Act of 1960. It was quite significant, but only if understood through the convoluted system of voter disfranchisement during the era of Jim Crow. The Civil Rights Act of 1960 helped prove racially, discriminatory voter-registration practices and provided evidence used to help pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965

equal pay act of 1963. the equal pay act, signed in to law by president john f. kennedy on june 10, 1963, was one of the first federal anti-discrimination laws that addressed wage differences based on gender. they felt that this would prevent employers from undercutting future wages for men.