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Homer Plessy got on a railroad car designed for whites only. He was only 1/8 the black and was required to sit in the colored car. He was arrested for refusing to move.
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President Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces. NOT all of the presidents would support the Civil Rights movement.
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2nd grader Linda Brown attended black school in Topeka, Kansas which was farther than the white school. Seperate but not equal. Desegregation in schools.
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A 14-year-old African American was murdered after being accused of flirting with a white women.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up bus seat to a white person. Busses were desegregated from this.
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Supreme court ruled that all public schools must integrate "With all deliberated speed." Met with massive resistance in the south.
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Integration, National gov't was stronger than states rights... 9 colored students tried to go to an all-white high school. Schools were desegregated
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He was assassinated in 1965. He was a muslim ministrator and human rights activists.
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Started serving colored... They would sit where white usally would and would wait to be served but never did.
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Desegregated interstate bus faculties. People who rode interstate busses to segregated southern states.
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Integration and federalism. He attempted to enroll in an all white university (Ole Miss)
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JFK Proposes civil rights Bill, the Most segregated city in the south. 18 bombings occurred between 1957-1963. MLK Jr & SCLC hold marches and are arrested.
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demonstration to human dignity nonsegregated march.
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He delivered the speech at the 1963 March On Washington. Known as one of a signature moment of the CIvil War.
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gave blacks right to vote
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it ended segregation in public places. Known as one of the greatest Legislative achievements but was first proposed by president John F. Kennedy.
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the rights of citizens of United States to vote in any primary or other election and not denied reason of failure to pay poll tax or other taxes.
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laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States
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Selma to montgomery lead to voters rights act.
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happened in Memphis Tennessee which created a whole bunch of anger among black americans
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The busses that carried african american students were abused by throwng things like eggs, rocks, and bricks.
