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Civil Rights Movement
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Dec 9, 1952 – May 17, 1954
A man named Oliver Brown filed a class-action suit against the Board of Education of Topeka after his daughter was denied entrance to Topeka’s all-white elementary schools. -
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Little Rock Nine
A group of African American high school students who challenged racial segregation in the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas. -
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Freedom Summer
A voter registration project in Mississippi to expand black voting in the South.