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The supreme court ruled that every state had too offer equal educational opportunities
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President Truman made the Committe on Civil Right to study racial descrimination and to suggest federal solutions to the problem
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An african american named Heman Sweatt applied to the law school at the university of texas, which did not accept black students
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Truman ended segregation in the military
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The supreme court ordered the university to admit Sweatt to its law school
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the naacp decided to focus its legal efforts on ending segregation in public schools
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The supreme court ruled in the Brown case that segregation in public schools is illegal
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only three districts in the entire south beganto desegregate.
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the court made its ruling stronger for ordering public schools to desegregate "with all deliberate speeds"
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african american seamstress, rosa parks, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger
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the supreme court ruled that montgomery's segregated bus systems was illegal.
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THe school board elected 9 outstanding african americans students to attend Central High School