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Brown v. Board of Education
Jim Crow laws were created and put into effect, blacks and whites were then considered separate but equal. -
The Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Till was murdered after giving a white girl a goodbye at a restaurant. -
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
After Rosa Parks was kicked off a Montgomery bus for "sitting in a white persons seat", the African American population of Montgomery stopped using any bus for almost a year -
The Little Rock School Crisis
President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in a military squadron just to allow 9 black students into the school because nobody else did. -
The 1960 Sit-Ins
The African American population went into "white restaurants" and sat down while refusing to leave the premises.
