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The Board of Education worked with the U.S. Supreme Court. Together they made sure that segregated public schools were constitutional.
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School segregation starts to be recognized and is protested. The schools start slowly integrating. The schools integrate at a very slow rate.
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Rosa Parks refuses to let a white man take her seat. (Montgomery, Alabama) After this event the Negros started a boycott on buses. This boycott made protest other places to start the civil rights movement.
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Nine negro students are forbidden to enter a all-white school. Located in Little Rock, Arkansas. The school was called Central High School.
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The Greensboro Sit-in. Four negro students created a new point in history. The four negro students sat at a lunch counter for only whites.
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The CORE protested the segregation seating on buses. Freedom riders were arrested in North Carolina and abused in South Carolina. A bus was burned and attacked in Alabama.
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From May 2nd to the 10th, thousands of kids and teens protested segregation by marching in Birmingham, Alabama. This event was titled the Children's Crusade.
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Two negro students wanted to attend the University of Alabama. The school would not allow it. John F. Kennedy ended segregation education by submitting the civil rights legislation to congress.
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More than 200,000 African Americans marched on Washington. Including Martin Luther King Jr. Who gave his "I have a dream" speech.
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The president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. That made segregation in education, employment, and public facilities illegal.
