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This was a court case about a seven year old named Linda Brown who had to walk a mile to get to a black school when there was a white school just blocks away. This case eventually led to the desegregation of schools.
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The idea of gradual desegregation of little rock schools, named after the person who created it, Virgil Blossom
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A group of middleclassmen who wanted to reduce violence and prevent implementation of the Brown court desicion.
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Till was a 14 year old boy. One day his friends dared him to talk to a white woman in a candy store, and he did. About a week later, her husband struck him in the head with a shotgun, he was killed instantly.
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Document trying to reverse segregation
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The school board wanted to desegregate the Hoxie schools because they didn't think they had enough money to fund two separate schools. It took over a year to finally win the case.
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All-white school that the Little Rock 9 tried to get into
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Governor Faubus tells the national guard to keep the Little Rock 9 from entering Central High School.
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Due to miscommunication, Eckford missed the rest of the group and had to walk to school alone. She was followed profusely by mobs and white children harrassing her
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The President calls in the Army to ensure the Little Rock 9's entrance into Central
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She was expelled from Central for getting into a fight with a white girl. She transferred to a school in NYC.
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He was the first african-american to graduate from Central.
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called the Lost Year.. Governor Faubus basically decided that if he couldn't have things his way then he was just going to shut down all of the schools.
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This is when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speech.
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made everything equal and integrated- for real this time.
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Made blacks allowerd to vote.
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Malcom X was a black advocate who rejected the idea of integration and supported "black power".
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A group of black activists were marching through Alabama when they were attacked by a white mob and murdered.