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This case banned segregation in public schools. This case was important to civil rights because public school was a big part of the public segregation. -
Emmett Till was lynched by two white men for supposedly whistling at one of their wives. The two men were charged with the murder but found not guilty because they had an all white jury over the case. This brutal murder fueled the civil rights movement, as it was still early at the time of this happening. -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the bus to white people, so she was arrested. This led to a 381-day mass protest against bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, which was led by Martin Luther King Jr. -
Nine African American students integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. This was after Brown V. Board of Education. This action was met with violence and harassment. -
Four African American college freshmen sat at the "whites only" lunch counter and were refused service. This was turned into a pivotal civil rights protest, which led to the desegregation of the Woolworth's lunchroom. -
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions