Racial progress. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine in 1957. Racial progress. The lunch-counter sit-ins by Black college students in 1960 led to the desegregation of Southern businesses. Racial progress. Freedom Riders helped desegregate bus terminals in 1961. Racial progress. The March on Washington and the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr., made nationwide news in 1963. Racial progress. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. Racial progress.
