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Homer Plessy was a man who was 1/8th black and refused to ride on the black car on a train. He was then arrested. He said being kicked off the white car violated his 13th and 14th amendment rights. The Supreme Court said that this racial segregation was “separate but equal.”
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A black girl wanted to go to a white school that was close to her home, but she was forced to go to a school 21 blacks away from her home. She had to walk through a busy train yard to get there. This case was taken to Supreme Court and they said that having separate schools for blacks and rights was unconstitutional.
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Emmett Till was lynched at age 14 by a group of white men for supposdly fliritng with a white woman.
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Rosa Parks was a black woman who refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white man. She was then arrested. The black community in Montgomery started a boycott of the buses in Montgomery until discrimmination on buses was stopped.
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Nine black students were going to attend Little Rock's Central High School, but governor Orval Faubus ordered the National Guard to turn them away. Eight members recieved phone calls from ministers who would escort them to school safely. One did not have a phone so she went to school alone facing many challenges with angry whites along the way. President Eisenhower placed the National Guard under federal control and sent 1000 paratroopers to watch over the students
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Black students from North Carolina's Agricultural and Technical College staged a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter at a Woolworth's store in Greensboro. Reporters covered this and showed how blacks were being beaten and ahving food thrown at and on them. Store managers removed seats and raised food prices but the students wouldn't leave.
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Six whites and seven blacks rode a bus from Washington D.C. through the deep South to try to convince the Supreme Court to ban segregation on buses and bus terminals. They rode and were attacked multiple times in the Southern states. U.S. marshals were sent to protect them and they eventually reached their goal of Louisiana.
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250,000 black and white citizens marched in Washington D.C. in order to stop black citizens from being treated like second class citizens. This is where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech where he called for an end to racism.
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This act was passed and abolished poll taxes and tests before voting. This made it so blacks could vote.
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The Black Panthers were founded to protect black neighborhoods from polic brutality. They used a Socialist and Marxist forms of government.
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