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The Commitee on Civil Rights is created to moniter and help racial descrimination be lessened.
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Truman ends segregatioin the military and in federal offices.
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Herman Sweatt asked to be admitted to the University of Texas they wouldn't allow him to enter, so instead the University chose to create a university for blacks only, the supreme court decided it was wrong
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The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was wrong in public schools.
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Under the orders of the Supreme Court only three school destricts in the south begin to desegregate.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus on Montgomery, Alabama, she was arrested
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After the Rosa Parks incident , E. D. Nixon who was the former leader of the NAACP created a boyocott of all City bus systems.
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A boycott that was started because Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting on the only white section of a bus in Montgomery Alabama.
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Supreme Court says that the Montgomery Alabama bus system was illegal
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9 upstamding students were admitted to an all white high school, Central Highschool.
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Govenor Faubus closed Little Rock public schools for an entire school year just to fight integration. This ended in 1959 when the court reopened the schools and began the process of slow integration.
