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This court case upheld the ruling that racial segregation in public schools was acceptable.
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The supreme court ruled that separate public schools for black and white children is unconstitutional.
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Emmet was lynched by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam for allegedly flirting with Bryant's wife inside their food store.
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She was an activist in the civil rights movement, deemed the first lady of civil rights. She is famous for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
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This was a boycott of the Municipal Bus Company in Alabama by African Americans.
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Nine African American students were chosen to attend a previously all white Little Rock High School.
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The Freedom Riders were Civil Rights activists who rode interstate busses into segregated areas of the southern United States.
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Medgar was murdered by a member of the White Citizens Council. The Council was formed in 1954 to resist the integration of schools and civil rights activism.
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Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous "I Have a Dream Speech" at the Lincoln Memorial.
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Malcolm X was assassinated by three gunman who were members of the Nation of Islam.
