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Supreme court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
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while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier.
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Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man.
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nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock.
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a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest.