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The Supreme court ruled 9-0 that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court said that segregation in public schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Emmett Till was a 14 year old who lived in Chicago and went to visit his family in the summer. A female store clerk said that Till whistled at her and the female store clerks relatives did not like this, so they kidnapped and killed Emmett Till.
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Segregation laws at the time said that black people must sit in designated seats. The law also stated that a black person would have to give up their seat to a white person.
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This was a civil rights protest where African Americans refused to ride the buses in Montgomery, Alabama. This was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that having segregation on buses is unconstitutional.
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This Civil Rights Act established the Civil Rights section of the Justice Department. This act also gave the federal justice department more rights to supervise voter registration.
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This also is known as the little rock nine because 9 African Americans were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School.
The Little Rock crisis started because the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school.
Violence by Opposition