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In Plessy v. Ferguson the Court decided that as long as everything is separate but equal everything is fine. This made the Jim
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NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It helped colored people with legal issues.
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Medgar Evers organized voter registration efforts. Volunteered to help the NAACP.
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Thurgood Marshall was the NAACP head lawyer. The Court decided that separate public schools for black and white student is unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks went to jail because she refused to give her seat to a white man. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the boycot. African Americans stopped riding the bus for 11 months until the court said that it was unconstitutional.
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Nine kids went to an all white school in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Governer brought in the National Guard to stop the student from going to school. Then President Eisenhower sent the U.S National Guard to enforce Brown v. Board of Education.
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