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The court case that allowed separate but equal facilities was the Plessy vs Ferguson case. In Topeka Kansas a black school girl was denied access into her own public school which causes the Brown v. Board of Education. The result was that the court decided that segregation was unconstitutional.
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A black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white person. Rosa Parks was then arrested and sent to prison but set a big example for all blacks to boycott buses.
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The Civil Rights act was passes by Eisenhower. The Civil Rights act stated that all African Americans votes were protected.
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A school in Little Rock, Arkansas won a court order to allow nine African Americans into their school. It was a high school with 2,000 white students. The Governor of Arkansas did not agree with the schools choice so sent in the National guard to stop the black children from entering. When they were not let in the Government sent in the 101st Airborne infantry and followed the children into the school.
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The " Friendship nine" and many other young people staged nonviolent sit-in protests at the lunch counters. They asked for service and when it was refused they peacefully set there until arrested.
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The Freedom Riders were a group of blacks and whites that sat in opposite race seats on the bus in order to desegregate buses. The CORE was an organization that helped the Freedom Riders.
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James Meredith was a black student that enrolled at ole Mississippi. When he attempted to enroll the Governor he denied his access into the school. President John F. Kennedy sent in marshals to stop the riots and allow James into the school. He attended school under federal federal guard and graduated.
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Medgar Evers was the Civil Rights leader. This made him a high target for the KKK because it would slow blacks progression towards equal rights. He was assassinated on June 12th.
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The purpose of the March on Washington was to convince congress in to passing the civil rights bill. This is where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech "I have a dream".
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At the 16th St. Baptist Church a bomb exploded killing 4 black girls. It was another extreme example of violence against blacks in the south.
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Civil Rights workers go to the South to register Black voters. On June 21,196,4 while they are there three of the workers are killed, and many homes are burned in an effort to stop the registrations.
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Johnson the current president passed the civil rights act of 1964. It said that the federal government had the power to prevent racial discrimination. It also made segregation illegal in all of the US.
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Black Civil rights leader who advocated change through violent means, Malcolm X was killed rival Black Muslims from the Nation of Islam
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The march was organized by the SCLC and MLK to keep pressure on the government. During the march while praying people ran out and beat them up. In the end 70 African Americans were hospitalized.
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A predominantly black Political Organization that believed in the use of violence to make change happen. They disagreed with Martin Luther King and his non violent way of getting things done.
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Thurgood went to law school in Washington, DC before becoming the first black supreme court judge. It was a great honor to him because he was the first black doing a white job.
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MLK was in Memphis to support a strike. He was at his hotel and was standing on the balcony and was shot by a sniper. His death shook not just blacks but everyone who supported his cause and was a very big tragedy.
