Portuguese colonization in the 1400s inaugurated an era of aggressive European expansion across the Atlantic. The Spanish, threatened by the Portuguese monopoly on enslaved Africans and expansion in the Atlantic, started their own colonization project with Christopher Columbus in 1492
In December 1956, the US Supreme Court ratified the decision on the Browder v. Gayle case by which the<u> laws in Montgomery and in Alabama that allowed segregation in public tranport services, were declared unconstitutional,</u> after the city and the State of Alabama had appealed. Such decision was previously adopted by the three-judge panel of the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on Montgomery
What was the goal of the Selma March? - To get voting rights legislation passed
