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Civil Rights Act In 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which outlawed discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin.

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In 1972, Segregationists tried a number of strategies to stop integration, including public votes against integration and passing a law to close public schools to avoid integration. All of the strategies were eventually defeated.

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