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Supreme Court requires each state to have equal education
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Heman Sweatt applied to law school at the University of Texas, which did not accept black students. School officals chose to create a separate African American law school
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The drive for African Amerian voting rights brought violence. Many African Americans asked the president for help
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Afican American veterans came home from WW2 with anger. They served in the military overseas and were treated poorly when they got back home.
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After a lot of protesting, President Truman finally ends segregation in the military.
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Supremem court ruled in sweatt v.s. painter that the new school did not provide African Americans with access to equal academic prestige.
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Decided to focus its legal efforts on ending segregation in oublic schools
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The Supreme Court ruled in the Brown case that segregation in public schools was illegal.
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Only three school districts in the entire south desegregate
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white passenger and E.D. Nixon used her case to challenge the bus segregation law.
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The Supreme Court ruled that Montgomery's segregated bus system was illegal.
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The school board selects 9 outstanding African American students, known as the Little Rock Nine, to attend Central high school.
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Ernest Green became the first African American to graduate from Central High School.