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In 1938 The supreme court ruled that every state had to offer equal education oppurtunities.
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The supreme court that every state had to offer equal educational opprotunities.
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An african american applied to the law school at the university of Texas which did not accept black students and made a sperate school for blacks.
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In the summer of 1946 a group of civil rights activits outside the presidents whitehouse to try and make him speak up. That same summer nearly 15,000 protestors marched to the Lincoln MEmorial to get Ku Klux Klan outlawed
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In July 1948 Truman ended segregation in the military.
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In 1950 the supreme court ruled that in Sweatt V. Painter.
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NAACP decided to focus its legal efforts towrds segregation
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The Supreme court ruled in the Brown case that segregation and public schools is illegal.
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Rosa Parks didn't give her seat up to a white passenger and was arrested.
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The supreme court ruled that Montgomery segregated bus system was illegal.
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The school board selected nine African American students, to attend Central High School.Students did not like some of the pople from Little Rock Nine.
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The supreme court ordered University of Mississippi to accept James Meredith as its first African Amercian student. On September 25, governor Barnett did not let him attend. Then on september 30 there was a deadly riot on campus. Finally he attended cass on October 1, 1962.
