One key event that led to the end of segregation was the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954, which declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. The Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, led by figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., also played a significant role in bringing an end to segregation through protests, marches, and acts of civil disobedience. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were landmark pieces of legislation that outlawed discrimination based on race and prohibited literacy tests and other barriers to voting. These events, along with ongoing activism and advocacy efforts, gradually dismantled the legal and institutional barriers that enforced segregation in the United States.
