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Thurgood Marshall
He was the president for the NAACP and dealt with any cases involving black people. He was the one who fought against the school board in the Brown Vs. Education. He later became the first black man in Supreme Court. -
Jackie Robinson
He was the first Afican American in the MLB. He debuted April 15th, 1947. This was important because it began letting African Americans the ability to showcase their talent in proffesional sports. -
Dixiecrats
Dixiecrats: segregational political party, was known in the southern states.The Dixiecrat party opposed racial integration and wanted to retain Jim Crow's laws and maintain white supremacy. This was important because it showed how rasict the south really was during this time period. -
Desegregated Army
The United States Army high command announces it will desegregate the Army. This is important because now African Americans could serve for their country as well as whites. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
This was a court case where NAACP was defending the black population against the national school board. The case happened because the black population did not think students should be separated according to race. The NAACP proved to the jury that the schools were not equal. -
emmett till
Emmett Till was a 14 black kid that was kidnapped, while visiting some family, and brutally murdered by two white men for whistling at a women leaving a store. This started an uproar in the black community. -
Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a white person getting on the bus and move to the back. She is called the mother of civil rights. -
Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr. is elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, making him the official spokesman for the boycott. The boycott started after rosa parks was arrested on dec, 5, 1955.