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Executive Order 9981 was an executive order issued on July 26, 1948 by president Harry S. Truman. It abolished racial discrimination eventually led to the end of segregation in services.
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The Brown V. Topeka Board Of Education was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. This led to an increase in school violence.
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14 year old Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Money , Mississippi, when he reportedly flirted with a white women in a store. Four days later , two white men related to the woman on the store , Kidnapped Till, beat him and shot him in the head. The men were taken to court for the murder of Till and found Not Guilty. This caused people to notice how bad it was down south.
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Because of the arrest of Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955, The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a 13 month pass protect, Blacks and Whites refused to ride a public bus to prove the point of "not needing them" , it ended with the U.S. supreme court ruling that segregation on public buses unconstitutional.
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Freedoms riders were civil right activist who rode interstate buses into segregated southern United States in 1961 challenging segregation in South America.
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