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==Courts reverse==

==Courts reverse==

After 1945, the [[Civil Rights]] movement gained momentum and used federal courts to attack Jim Crow. The Supreme Court declared legal, or ''de jure'', public school segregation unconstitutional in 1954 in [[Brown vs. Board of Education]]. The Sufederal courts then systematically ended Jim Crow in practice by the 1970s.<ref> Michael J. Klarman, ''From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The  Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality'' (2006) </ref>   

After 1945, the [[Civil Rights]] movement gained momentum and used federal courts to attack Jim Crow. The Supreme Court declared legal, or ''de jure'', public school segregation unconstitutional in 1954 in [[Brown vs. Board of Education]]. The federal courts then systematically ended Jim Crow in practice by the 1970s.<ref> Michael J. Klarman, ''From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The  Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality'' (2006) </ref>   

President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], building a coalition of [[liberal]] northern [[Democrat]]s and [[conservative]] Northern [[Republicans]], pushed [[Congress]] to pass the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] which immediately ended Jim Crow laws that segregated restaurants, hotels and theatres; these facilities (with rare exceptions) immediately dropped racial segregation. In 1965 the federal [[Voting Rights Act]] ended discrimination in voting for all federal, state and local elections.

President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], building a coalition of [[liberal]] [[Democrat]]s and [[conservative]] [[Republicans]] from the north, pushed [[Congress]] to pass the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]], which immediately ended Jim Crow laws that segregated restaurants, hotels and theatres; these facilities (with rare exceptions) immediately dropped racial segregation. In 1965 the federal [[Voting Rights Act]] ended discrimination in voting for all federal, state and local elections.

Conservatives and liberals alike denounce the policy of Jim Crow as an unacceptable violation of the principle of equal rights for all. [[File:Strangecareer.jpg|thumb|200px|the standard history]]

Conservatives and liberals alike denounce the policy of Jim Crow as an unacceptable violation of the principle of equal rights for all. [[File:Strangecareer.jpg|thumb|200px|the standard history]]