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In 1896 The Plessy v. Ferguson case allowed separate but equal facilities In Topeka Kansas Black kids wanted to go to a white school starting the case and it ruled segregation of schools was unconstitutional.
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Lamar Smith was a WW1 veteran who was killed for trying to organize black voters.
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Rosa Parks was on the bus, when she refused to give up her seat to a white person. It helped give way to the start of the civil rights movement.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower passed the Civil Rights act of 1957. It ensured that all citizens of the United States of America Could exercise their right to vote.
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Nine black school children were set to attend a white school when riots broke trying to stop the children. Soon the military came and protected the children when they went to school.
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The Freedom Riders were African American people who rode segregated buses. Congress of Racial Equality helped form the Freedom Riders to help eliminate the segregation on buses, and it did not involve white people.
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Roman Ducksworth was a soilder who was forcibly removed from the bus he was on and then killed by Police
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James Meredith enrolled at Ole Miss but when but on his first day he was met with riots. The millatary had to come just to get him to class
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William Lewis Moore was killed during a one-man march against seregation at Attalla, Alabama
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Medgar Evers was an African American Civil Rights activist who was shot in killed in front of his house standing in front of his two kids
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The March on Washington was for civil and economic rights for African Americans, here is were John Lewis gave his famous speech.
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President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights act of 1964 that that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Lemuel Peen was a decorated WW2 veteran, Who was killed by the KKK
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The March to Selma was organized to register black voters in the South. There was white rebeling to stop the march but was met with the millatary
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Benjamin Brown was a Civil rights worker who was killed when the police fired on protesters.
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Before Marshall became the frist Black Supreme Court Justice he worked at the Baltimore branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. I feel that this was important becuase it shows that black people were making there way up the social chain.
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Martin was standing on his hotel balcony when he was shot and killed by James Earl Ray. This had a huge impact on boths white and blacks because it should how bad it had become.
