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African American faced discrimination everywhere in the US
There was seperation in public places such as restrooms, drinking fountains, neighborhoods, stairways, elevators, transportation etc. -
Court case in Topeka, Kansas that went to the Supreme Court that challenged school segregation laws and was very famous
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Rosa Parks Refused to give up her seat, sparking protests like bus boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama when the blacks boycotted the bus system in order to try to receive unsegregated bus seating
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A federal judge ordered an all white school to desegregate and allow the nine students, little rock nine, to enroll at Little Rock but they were met by an angry mob who did not want them to attend. President Eisenhower orders 101st US Army to escort Little Rock NineThey successfully enrolled but that was not the end of the hatred they received.
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Fireman used their powerful hoses as weapons and turned them on peaceful protesters
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The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday, September 15, 1963, when four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted a minimum of 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the front steps of the church. 4 children died due to bomb exploded in racial hatred.
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Outlawed segregation in public facilities and banned discrimination in work.
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A March of 600 peaceful protesters tried to march from Selma to Montgomery to try to protest for their voting rights but were violently stopped by state troopers and many were severely injured.
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Allowed African American the right to vote and outlawed unfair tests like poll taxes and literacy tests
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Martin Luther King Jr. was hot to death in Memphis, Tennessee while giving a speech
