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This court case is what started the concept of "Seperate but equal", the idea that white and black people would be allowed to have to go to seperate schools as long as they were considered to be of equal quality. For the next 60 years, African Americans would not get equal treatment as White Americans despite supposedly being equal.
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African Americans Sat in segregated lunch areas in protest of the segregated counters.
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Brown was not allowed to send his daughter to an all white preschool, so he sued and the court rule that it was illegal for his daughter to be denied education at the all white school. This was an early example of the end of the "seperate but equal" ideology.
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After Rosa Parks arrest, the African American community decided to protest by not using busses until they would no longer be forced to sit in the back. This went on for roughly a year before the government gave in.
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Emmett till was a 14 year old boy who was murdered after flirting with a white woman.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and was arrested, this sparked the bus boycott.
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When desegregation began to take place, Arkansas became the first state to begin desegregation, in the town of little rock, schools began desegregation, but Governer Orval Faubus was for segregation and ordered the National Guard to turn away the nine students attempting to go to the school.
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de jure segregation was segregation caused by laws, while de facto segregation was caused by social customs.
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to test if busses were truly no longer segregated, CORE members traveled across the south to test how well the laws were inforced properly.
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to encourage the passing of the bill Kennedy sent to Congress, the SCLC got people to march to washington to get congress to pass the bill.
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the 24th amendment forbade the use of a "poll tax" in which citizens had to pay to vote, commonly used to keep poor African Americans from voting.
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After JFK's assasination, his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, pledged to carry on Kennedy's work, he passed the Civil Rights Act, which made it illegal to discriminate because of race, religion, national origin, and gender.
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The act that eliminated the Jim Crow laws and gave African Americans the right to vote.
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Malcolm X was a civil rights activist who took an aggressive approach towards civil rights rather than kings pacifist approach.
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in response to the death of a demonstrator, MLK announced that he would be marching from Selma to Montgomery, people watched in horror as the protesters were assaulted by police. Soon after, A voting rights act went to congress.
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After the voting rights act, Many "race riots" started to occur, first in los angelos, then in several places in 1966, and in 1967 there were over 100 riots.
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Became the First African American Supreme Court justice.
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Pastor who became a civil rights icon for generations to come, lead several Civil rights movements. he was assassinated on April 3, 1968.
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to protest the total segregation in Birmingham, MLK and many other SCLC members marched through Birmingham. After many demonstrations, they were arrested.
