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Jim Crow is a law created by a collective of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation.
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People was segregated based on the color of their skin. People of color was not created equally. Blacks and people of color did not have the chance to receive the same lifestyle and educations that white people have.
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The NAACP is a civil rights organization created to enforce equality for minorities. During this time the NAACP focused on racially biased criminal prosecutions.
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Two lawyers Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall focused on the segregations within the school system.
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The case brown vs the board of education is a combination of five different cases that was put together by the supreme court.
Brown v. board of education
Briggs v. Elliot
Davis v. Board of Education of Prince Edward County (Va.)
Bolling v. Sharpe
Gebhert v. Ethel -
The supreme court made the decision that racial segregating schools are discriminatory and a violation of their fourteenth amendment.
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The supreme court ordered that segregated schools be desegregated with all deliberate speed.
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A protest that went against the decision of desegregation. 19 Senators and 77 members of the House of Representatives signed the "Southern Manifesto," a resolution condemning the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
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Ruby bridges attended an all-white school named William Frantz Public School. She is the first back person to attend an all white school.
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The civil act was passed by President Lyndon Johnson and congress.