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Equal protection for Blacks under the law
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Voting right for blacks
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Segregation in the South
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Supreme court declares facilities as seperate but equal
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Blacks pushed into low paying jobs and discouraged from the military But the Tuskegee Airmen became the first military aviators with black comrades
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President Franklin D.Roosevelt opened government jobs to blacks
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President Harry Truman issued order 9981
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Civil rights movement gained momentum through abolishment of segregation in public schools.
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She was 42 years old and refused to get up for a white man and was arrested. She is nicknamed the mother of the modern day civil rights movement
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Supreme court rouled seating segregation as unconstitutional after boycott.
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School asked for black volunteeres to attend their school. Semptember 3rd, nine black students (the little rock nine) tried to enter the school but were met with violence. President Dwight D.Eisenhower ordered federal troops to escort the nine
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Fought for civil rights.