Civil Rights Movement

  • The Supreme Court ruled that every state had to offer equal educational opportunities.

  • Heman applied to the law school at the university on Texas which did not accept black students.

  • Truman created the comitee on Civil Rights.

  • Truman ended segragation in the military.

  • Supreme Court ruled in sweatt v. Painters that the new school did not provide African Americans with access ro equal academic prestige, facilities, or instructors.

  • Supreme Court ruled Brown case that segragation was illegal in school.

  • Only 3 schools in the enitre south began to desegragate

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up seat.

  • Supreme Court ruled that Montgomerys segragated bus system was illegal.

  • School board selected 9 african american students known as the Little rock 9 to attend central highschool.

  • Ernest green became the first african amercian to graduate from central highschool.

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    Little rock public schools are closed.

  • The Supreme Court ordered thge university of Mississippi to accept James Meredith