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In Topeka, Kansas Linda Brown a thrid grader had to walk a mile to school everyday even though a white only school was a block away. Thurgood Marshall took this to Supreme Court and soon blacks and whites were allowed to go to the same school.
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In Montgomery, AL Rosa Parks was arrested for nonviolent defiance when she refused to move out of her seat for a white passenger. The black community started organizing boycotts and refused to ride the buses.
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In Montgomery, Alabama, after the arrest of Rosa Parks. Martin Luther King Jr. and many other protesters were non- violently protesting for equal rights. They refused to ride the buses untill they were desegrageted. It ended a year later when the Montgomery bus segragation laaws were unconstitutional.
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In Raleigh, North Carolina the NC govenerment and Govener Hodges signed the Pearsall Plan which made privite schools open up to blacks.
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In Greensbro, North Carolina four African American college boys were arrested for civil diobedience when they refused to get up at a whites only lunch counter. After all the protesting blacks were allowed to sit at the whties only lunch counter.
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In Memphis, Tennessee, Martin Luther King Jr. was standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel when James Earl Ray shot him. James Earl Ray was arrested.
