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Supreme Court ruled that every state had to offer equal educational oppurtunities.
This meant that states offering law schools and medical schools for whites had to provide such institutions for African Americans as well. -
African American,Heman Sweatt, appplied to the law school at University of Texas.
Sweatt was not admitted because he applied to a school that does not allow blacks. Which lead to a supreme court case. -
Civil Rights group protests in front of White House
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President Truman created the Commitee on Civil Rights
Used to study racial discrimination and to suggest federal solutions to the problem. -
President Truman ended segregation in the military.
Truman ended segregation in the military,the same year he also banned racial discriminationin the hiring of federal employees -
The Supreme Court ruled in Sweatt v. Painter that the new school did not provide African Americans with access to equal academic prestige,facilities, or instructors.
Heman Sweatt went to supreem court for trail to see if he could be admitted into University of Texas -
the NAACP decided to focus its legal efforts on ending segregation in public schools