People like Malcolm X, who led black Muslims in their fight against oppression and prejudice; Martin Luther King Jr. who led a nonviolent movement to change the ways in which black Americans were treated, and essentially to end segregation; and Rosa Parks, who refused to relinquish her seat to a white woman on a public bus, which led to the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama were all part of the black insurrection which ultimately resulted in the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as the granting of voting rights to black Americans, giving African Americans the freedom to act and...

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