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state laws requiring racial segregation in public
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African-American and
white children in the same classroom ‘was based on a belief -
Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, on August 24, 1955, when he reportedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus in Alabama
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Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus
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prevented from entering the racially segregated school
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The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro
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were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated
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This Act essentially eliminated legalised racial segregation in the US. The legislation made it illegal
to discriminate against blacks -
African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment
