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  • Supreme Court decides three civil rights cases

    Supreme Court decides three civil rights cases in which it allows colored students into Universities.
  • Harry Moore, leader of NAACP is killed

    Harry Moore, leader of NAACP is killed

    Harry Moore, leader of NAACP is killed, and his wife is fatally wounded when their home is bombed
  • Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower wins presidential election

    Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower wins presidential election

  • Supreme Court orders reargument in Brown v. Board

  • Supreme Court rules that public school segregation violates the equal protection of the 14th Amendment

  • Rosa Parks is arrested

    Rosa Parks is arrested

    Rosa Parks is arrested in Montomery, Alabama for not removing herself from her seat when a white man asks her to move
  • Autherine Lucy is accepted into the University of Alabama

    Autherine Lucy is accepted into the University of Alabama

    Autherine Lucy is accepted into the University of Alabama. She is the first African-American student after litigation in federal court

  • First federal civil rights bill since 1875

    after it is significantly weakened in the Senate to avoid a filibuster. The act makes conspiring to deny citizens their right to vote in federal elections a federal crime

  • the Court decides Cooper v. Aaron

    Unanimously overturning a district court decision allowing the Little Rock school board to postpone desegregation
  • Mack Charles Parker

    Mack Charles Parker

    accused of raping a white woman, is taken from jail in Poplarville, Mississippi, and lynched by a mob