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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LKIIThtPM It separate but equal it mean that they were keep africa american and white people to be treat equal. They were fight for they right and the way they got treat. Well it just about treat them equal.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2XHob_nVbw Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students .
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Supreme Court reverses Plessy by stating that separate schools are by nature unequal. Schools are ordered to desegregate "with all deliberate speed"
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Rosa Parks ignites 381-day bus boycott organized by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxXzKG9t4L8 Rosa was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This single act of nonviolent resistance sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, an eleven-month struggle to desegregate the city's buses.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xERXusiEszs The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially.
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Blacks and whites take buses to the South to protest bus station segregation. Many are greeted with riots and beatings
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In response to white ministers who urge him to stop causing disturbances, King issues articulate statement of nonviolent resistance to wrongs of American society
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Head of Mississippi NAACP is shot outside his home on the same night that Pres. Kennedy addresses the nation on race, asking "Are we to say to the world...that this is a land of the free except for Negroes"
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More than 200,000 blacks and whites gather before Lincoln Memorial to hear speeches (including King's "I Have a Dream") and protest racial injustice
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4 black girls are killed by bomb in church
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Black voter registration increases and candidates begin to turn away from white supremacy views in attempt to attract black voters
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Overcoming Senate filibuster, Congress passes law forbidding racial discrimination in many areas of life, including hotels, voting, employment, and schools
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After passage, southern black voter registration grows by over 50% and black officials are elected to various positions. In Mississippi, black voter registration grew from 7% to 67%
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Following acquittal of officers who beat Rodney King, 600 buildings are torched and 50 people killed, and $1 billion in damage recorded. It is lso known as the Rodney King riots, the South Central riots,
