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the supreme court ruled that every state had to offer qual educational oppertunities
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An African American named Heman Sweatt applied to the law school at the university of Texas wich did not accept black students, so rather than admitt Sweatt school officals chose to create a seperate African American law school.
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A group of civil rights activist protest outside the white house
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President Truman responded to the pressure of the protests and created this committee to study racial descriminiation, and to suggest federal solutions to the problem.
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Truman ends segregation in the military
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The supreme court ruled in Sweatt v. Painter that the new school did not provide African Americans with access to equal academic prestige, Physilities, or instructers.
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The NAACP decided to focus it's legal efforts on ending segregation in public schools.
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The supreme court ruled in the Brown V Board of Education case, in which a 7 year old girl lived close to a white school but was forced to attend a far away African American School, Segregation was banned from public schools
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The court made its ruling stronger ordering public schools to de-segregate "With all deliberate speed"
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African American seamstress, Rosa Parks refudes to give up her seat to a white passenger and was quickly arrested her case was then used to challange the bus segregation law by former NAACP leader, E, D, Nixon he then organized an African American bycott of the city bus system known as the Montgomery Bus Bycott
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The supreme court ruled that Montgomery Segregated Bus System was illegal. The victory brought MLK Junior to the leader of the Civil Rights MOvement, and energize the African American community
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The schoolboard selected nine 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 student to graduate from Central High School