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Plessy vs. Ferguson
plessy was arrested because she decided not to go sit in the black railroad car when she sat in the front and then she got arrested. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine colored people tried to attend a once white school. These students were told to stay together and go to school like the white people. This angered the whites and they picked on the kids and tripped them. Even the teachers showed them no respect. Eventually, blacks started going to school just like the whites. The Little Rock Nine were the first colored people to attend a public school. The names of these people were Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlot -
The Greensboro Sit-in
Four college students sat in protest at a whites only bar in Greensboro, North Carolina. They took turns and protested all day. Later, more people started to protest for thier rights.
