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Segregationist groups organized in Arkansas to fight school interigation, which were mostly comprised of white, middle and upper class people.
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11 African Americans went to a white school. They were kept secret until Fayetteville schools desegregated. They refused to play sports or band.
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10 Days after Brown Vs. Board of Education (formed). Started with High Schools, then moved to Elementary Schools. This Desegregated the schools.
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3 weeks after Charlston Schools. Schools would refuse to play in sports or band competitions.
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"Premier" African American High School in Little Rock.
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All Black School.
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A written protest from southern members of congress in response to the Brown VS Board of Education decision to integrate schools.
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Judge Davies orders desegregation after Fabus sends in National Guard.
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This was part of the blossom plan.
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She went to school by herself and was turned away.
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Orval Faubus called in the National Guard to escort the black students form Little Rock Central High.
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President Eisenhower has the Federal Troops to help the Little Rock Nine get into the school.
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There was an arguement between her and a white student that ended with Minnijean throwing her soup on the white girl. She also said that a girl was "white trash". She was expelled.
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Ernest Green becomes the first African American to graduate from Central.
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Governer Faubus passed a law that would close every school in Little Rock for one year because of desegregation.
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This was when civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization and marched to Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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The US Supreme Court announces a special session to discuss the Little Rock desegregation issue.
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He was murdered by a couple of white kids that didn't get jailed for it, and this event made a major impact of the start of Desegregation in America.
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The Civil Rights Act was a law which outlawed most racial segregation.
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All citizens are allowed to vote equally and freely.
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There was a party meeting in Harlem to join forces with sympethetic whites. Own religious organization of African-American unity. He fought for black rights.
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Activists walked from Selma to Montgomery were gased and beaten by law enforcement while being watched on television.
