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Supreme court case that legalized segregation until 1950 under seperate but equal. This proved very hard to enforce
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Association founded in NY to improve the life of black people, by trying to end segregation.
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Played his first game in Booklyn and was met with lots of racism from fans and teammates.
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Executive order 9981 ended discrimination in the military by having an integrated boot camp.
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lawsuit in Topeka county to allow black students to attend an all white high school.
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boycott against busses until the company ended the segregation. company realized they needed the money had had integrated busses.
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14 year old kid from Chicago was in Mississippi visiting family and was beat and lynched.
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group of nine black students who had to be escorted by national guards men into the all white high school.
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Black students in the SNCC protest segregation by sitting at whites only lunch counters.
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A test of the new integration of public transportation. met with violence and racism.
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Children of birmingham march to talk to the mayor about school integration but are arrested.
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march for jobs and civil rights. where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his i have a dream speech.
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Outlaws discrimination of any public places based on color, gender, race, religion, or sex.
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protest in Alabama on highway 55 and brutally beat and stopped by police officials.
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Stopped the sates from passing laws to try to block black people from voting.
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riots about brutal beating of a black driver by two white men for no apparent reason.
