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Millions of students around the country attended segrated schools, for most African American, there were almost always inferir schools. Both the Briggs and Brown cases, the lower courts upheld the practices of segrations. All nine justices agreed that seprate schools for African Americans and Whites violated the consitution.
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African Americans riders on tge bus had to pay in front of the bus then leave the bus then enter again through the rear doors. They werent allowed to sit down in front of the bus because it was reserved for white passengers.
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On Septmeber 4, 1957, a crowd of angry white harassed the black students as they arrived for the first day of school. The gaurd made no effort to protect the students. For three weeks the gaurd prevented the Afrian American students from enetering the school.
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Four College students in Greensboro, North Carolina, began a sit in of their own after ordering a coffee at a lunch counter. They were denied because of their rae. The next day they returned with more students. During the next months, protesters in about 50 southern citiies began to use the sit in tastic.
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The supreme court had ordered that facilites in bus stations serving interstate travelers to be open to any race. Memebers of the Core decided to draw attention to the situations by sending a group of freeom riders on a bus trip through the south.
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By mid Decemebr more than 500 protesters had been jailed local civil rights leaders brought national attention by inviting Martin Luther King Jr. to lead more demontrations. The nine month Albany movement was a major defeat for King.
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To build support for the civil right movements some African Americans leaders decided to plan a huge march on the nation capital. I was the largest civil rights march ever held in the united states. More than 200,000 people of all races came to the national mall.
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President Johnson supporte passage of a strong civil rights bill. Some sputherners in congress fought hard to kill it, Johnson signed it into the law on July 2, 1964. The Civil rights act of 1964 banned discrimmantions in employment and in public accomodations.
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On Sunday, March 7, 1965 about 600 African Americans began the 54-mile march. On the way out of selma, stat police blocked their way. After firing tear gas at the marches, police attacked with clubs and electric cattle prods.
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The LAw proved to be one of the most important pieces of civil rights over passed. The impact was quickly. Within the three weeks more than 27,000 African Americans in, Missippi, Alabama, and Louisiana registered to vote.
