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- In the case Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 it was decided that blacks and whites would have seperate but equal facilities -Linda Brown was denied admission to her local elementary school in Topeka because she was black. -The result of Brown v. Board of education was that 'Seperate but equal' was unequal in itself and blacks would have to be allowed into white schools.
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On december first Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for the reason that she was black and the other passenger was white. As a result she was arrested. Later, to show protest for Rosa's arrest and in efforts to end racial segregation the Montgomery bus was boycotted.
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Supreme Court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
The 1957 Civil Rights Bill aimed to ensure that all African Americans could exercise their right to vote. It wanted a new division within the federal Justice Department to monitor civil rights abuses and a joint report to be done by representatives of both major political parties (Democrats and Republicans) on the issue of race relations. -
A white mob gathered in front of the school, and Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the Little Rock Nine (black students) from entering. With the help of police escorts, the students entered the school through a side entrance. Fearing escalating mob violence, however, the students were rushed home soon afterward. President Eisenhower orders Federal troops to enforce desegregation in schools to prevent theses events from happening again.
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When Freedom Riders and their white friends where testing the bus desedregation laws on a bus Anniston-bound the were attacked by organized terrorists who had the support of local law inforcement and politicians. They attacked the bus breaking the windows and slashing tires, forcing the bus to pull over and continued to attack the bus.
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After riots erupt when a black student, James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss the government Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy sent federal marshals and later federalized National Guardsmen, in what essentially amounted to a military occupation of some 31,000 federal troops to get James safely inside the school. He graduated three years later
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Medgar Evers was a civil rights leader who was shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith.
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On 28 August 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the nation's capital. Martin Luther king jr. Gave his "I have a Dream" speech at the end of this march. The march was successful in pressuring the administration of John F. Kennedy to initiate a strong federal civil rights bill in Congress.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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The march on Selma was organized to get around the local campaign for the voting rights of the African Americans protected. As marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge along the route, the police, armed with shotguns and automatic weapons, confronted the marchers. More than 600 marchers were assaulted and 17 hospitalized on the first day of the march, known as "Bloody Sunday." The second day they marched to the bridge and then back, but on the third day they made it all the way to Montgomery.
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Marshall worked full time as legal counsel for the NAACP. Over the following decades, Marshall argued and won a variety of cases to strike down many forms of legalized racism, helping to inspire the American Civil Rights Movement before he became a justice. It was a monumental event because he was the first blackto become a justice
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Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His death had such abig impact on everyone because he had inspired so many people.
