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Herman Sweatt wanted to attend UT Law School. UT create a separate law school just to keep Sweatt out. The Supreme Court ruled failed to qualify as “separate but equal”, since it isolated students.
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The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, unanimously, agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white passenger and was arrested.
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The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School and they refused to let them enroll.
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Civil Rights Commission giving the federal courts the power to register African American voters.
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Interracial groups rode buses across the South to protest segregation
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Four African American students, the Greensboro Four, held a sit-in at a “Whites-Only” lunch counter in North Carolina.
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To gain support for a Civil Rights bill before Congress MLK led a “March on Washington" Dr. King gave his famous “I have a Dream” speech.
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MLK explained why African Americans could no longer wait patiently for their rights
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“prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, or ethnic background in hotels, restaurants, and all places of employment doing business with the federal government.”
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eliminated poll taxes in federal elections
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programs increased the number of minorities in colleges and businesses, but some said it was a form of reverse discrimination.
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MLK led marches in Selma, Alabama to demand voting rights for African Americans, but demonstrators were attacked by the police.
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was signed by LBJ, it ended poll taxes and led to an increase in the number of black voters.