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Homer Plessey sits on a bus, in one of the white seats
He is 7/8 black and 1/8 white
He doesn't move from his seat
He is arrested -
The Southern states pass the law to disfranchise blacks
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US Supreme Court bans segregation of black and white people in public transit.
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The case of Oliver Brown V. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas-
They unanimously agreed that the segregation of blacks, in schools, was unconstitutional. The decision overturns the 1896 case of Plessey V. Ferguson -
Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks meet
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A fourteen year old boy named, Emmet Till was visiting family in Mississippi, when he was kidnapped, shot and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whisteling at a white woman
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott all started with Rosa parks
She got on a bus and sat near the front because ther was no room in the back where the blacks "belonged"
She was told to move
She said no
She was arrested
And that is the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott -
The first day of the Boyccott begins and all the blacks stay off the bus
The bus divers stop at black bus stops but they don't get on because they are revolting by not getting onto the bus
They want equality -
Montgomery Bus Boycott from beginning to end
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In February a group of white attourneys came together and brought up an old law saying that boycotts were not legal
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Nine black students integrate with white students at a High School
President Dwight D. Isenhower send in paratroopers to ward off any violence -
James Merideth becomes the first balck student to enroll at The Mississippi Univerity
Riots begin and other trouble starts, A lot of people are not happy with this. -
Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested during anti- segregation protests, this is when he writes the "Letter from Bimingham Jail"
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Martin Luther King Jr. Gives his "I Have a Dream" speach
More than 250,000 civil rights demonstratiors march to see and hear his speach -
Martin Luther King Jr. wins the Nobel Peace Prize
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Martin Luther King Jr. Is assasinated in Memphis, TN.
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Unita Blackwell is elected the first black, female Mayor in history.
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Shelby County V. Holder
The Supreme Court struck down section 4 of the Voting Rights act
