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Linda Brown was denied admission into her local school in Topeka, Kansas and was told she needed to attend the all-black school across town. -
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Rosa Parks was told to move to the back of the bus, but she refused. this decision ultimately got her arrested and it started a large boycott against segregation. -
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott fought against the segregation in public transportation after multiple women were arrested for not following the segregation rules. The boycott lasted 382 Days. -
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the Little Rock Nine were a group of students that were admitted into a school that had 2000 white students. When the governor got wind of this he sent out the Nation Guard to stop the students from entering, that was soon surrounded by a mob of white supremacists. -
Eisenhower sent troops to protect the new students at Central High. He also had those same troops stay at the school for the remainder of the school year due to the mobs and fights that would break out. -
Four young African American College students went into an all-white cafeteria where they were denied service at a counter. As a response, they sat there all day at that counter until it closed. They kept doing so and more and more African American students heard about this until there were 300 students in the cafeteria. After two months it had spread to 54 cities in 9 different states.
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Although segregation in busses was outlawed, most of the south was still segregated. Many African American and white college students went and traveled to the south in order to draw attention to the problem. -
The Freedom Riders rode on busses to Birmingham, Montgomery, and Anniston, Alabama. When they arrived they were surrounded by mobs that destroyed the busses and beat about 70 of them until they were in critical condition.
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James Meredith was an Air Force veteran who applied for a transfer to University of Mississippi. The Governor however did not let him into the university. -
He sent out 500 marshals to escort Meredith to the campus where they were actually all attacked with acid, bottles, bricks, and rocks.
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Martin Luther King knew that Kennedy would have a rough time passing the bill so they sent 200,000 people to march by the capital. Martin Luther gave a speech as well.
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The civil rights act of 1964 only focused on descrimination and segregation. The SCLC and SNCC try to step up registration/voting efforts; they were often attacked and many African Americans were killed when they tried to go and vote.
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Malcom X was apart of the Black Muslim Religion where he preached and followed the idea of black nationalism. As time passed his views changed and he started to believe that integration among the races was possible. -
African Americans still experience racism after the passing of all the acts against discrimination. They weren't allowed to live in the same areas as white people. Also, many of them experienced extreme poverty because of their terrible job pay.
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After breaking away from the Muslim religion he still continued to talk about and call out those groups which ultimately got him killed.
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This happened during the Selma March where 70 demonstrators were beat by the cops until they ended up in the hospital. -
The Voting Right act was passed
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the black panthers were organized after Malcom X's death. they continued to spread his ideals and beliefs of black nationalism and black power.
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