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Nine Black teenagers were wrongly accused of raping two white women on a train in Alabama in 1931, sparking landmark civil rights cases highlighting systemic racism. -
unanimously declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine from Plessy v. Ferguson. The Court ruled that segregated schools are inherently unequal, violating the 14th Amendment -
The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, after being accused of offending a white woman in Mississippi -
Nine African American students who courageously integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957 -
Six-year-old Ruby Bridges desegregated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. and became the first African American to attend a all white school. -
The Civil Rights Act was passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson