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A group of civil rights activists protests outside of whitehouse
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Many returning African American veterens focused their efforts on voting descrimination
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African american Henan Sweatte applied to the new law school to the university of texas and it didnt accept it but eventually the court ordered it to allow him in
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Truman created a the comittee on civils right to study racial discrimination
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Truman ended segregation in military
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Supreme court ruled that every state had to offer equal education oppurtunity
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The supreme court ruled in brown case that segregation in public school is illegal
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To coordinate their efforts local leaders formed the Mongomery Improvement association
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The courts decision overturned the 1896 plessy vs ferguson ruling that established th seperate but equall quote doctrine, in ordered public schools to desegregate
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The supreme court ruled that montgomery segregated bus system was illegal
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Rosa parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger and she was aressted and it started the montgomery bus boyott
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The school board selected nine oustanding outstanding african american students which is known as the little rock nine to attend central high school