The document summarizes key events and developments in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the late 19th century to the 1970s. It discusses the rise of legalized racial segregation after the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was overturned, important court cases like Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education, leaders and organizations like Martin Luther King Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, pivotal protests and events including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and March on Washington, and landmark civil rights legislation such as the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.