The Civil Rights Movement aimed to outlaw racial discrimination against black Americans and restore their voting rights between 1955-1968. Key events included Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling declaring racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional. Student sit-ins at segregated lunch counters, like the 1960 sit-in led by four black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, further advanced the cause of desegregation and civil rights.