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Truman created the Commitee on Civil Rights to study racial discrimination
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The supreme court ruled in sweatt v. painter that the new school did not provide African Americans with access to equal academic prestige, facility's, or instructors
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Despite the courts order to desegregate schools with all deliberate speed, only three school districts in the entire south began to desegregate in 1954
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In May 1954 the supreme cort ruled in the brown case that segregation in public school was illegal
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The NAACP helped to plan a challenge to Montgomery's bus segregation system
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In November, 1956 the supreme court ruled that montgomery's segregated bus system was illegal
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The victory brought Martin Luther King jr. tot he forefront of the civil rights movement and energized the African American community
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The board of education would select nine excelling African American students to attend Central High School in 1957
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The president of Arkansas NAACP arranged rides to the high school for the students on September 4
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In May 1958, Ernest Green became the first African American student from Central High School
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Governor Faubus fought integration and closed Little Rock public schools during the 1958-59 school year
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The schools finnaly reopen under court order in 1959 and began a process of slow integration