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Seperate-but-Equal
The National Assocation for the Advancement of Colored Peolpe (NAACP) achieved success on the court cases that challenged the ruling of seperate-but-equal in regards of schools. The Supreme Court ruling of 1938 stated that every state had to offer equal educational oppportunities. If states offered law schools and medical schools for whites, the same had to be done for blacks. -
Sweatt applied to University of Texas
In the year 1946, a man named Heman Sweatt appliew who was African AMerican, applied to the University of Texas, even though that school didnt accdpt black students. The school officials did not want to admit Sweatt so they decided to create a seperate law school for African Americans. -
Committe on Civil RIghts
In the summer of 1946, violence broke out and many of the Afircan American leaders asked Truman for help. His response was the creation of the Committe on Civil RIghts which study the discrimination of racial predjuce and suggested federal solutions to the issue -
End of Segregation in the military
African Americans were frustrated with little action done by Truman but then Truman responded with the end of segregation in the military and he also banned racil discrimnation in the hiring of federal employees -
Sweatt v. Painter
The Supreme Court in 1950 ruled in the case Sweatt v. Painter that the seperate African American school did not provide the students there with access to equal academic prestiege, facilities or instructiors. The Supreme Court had orded the school officials to let Sweatt into the law school. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This consists of a number of school segration cases known as Brown v. Board of Education. This involved a girl by the name of Linda Brown. She was 7 years old and came from Topeka, Kansas. She was forced to go to an all black school; however, she lived much closer to an all white school. Her father sued the school board to allow her to go to the closer white school. -
Ruling of Brown v. Board of Education
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was illegal in public schools in May of 1954 -
Supreme Court made ruling stronger, ordered public schools to desgregate.
The Supreme Court had made its ruling stronger form the Plessy v Ferguson, that established sperate but equal, and the court wanted the schools to desgregate "with all deliberate speed" ANd most AFrican Americans were pleased with the Courts decisions. But, they wondered if they would enforce the desgregation laws. -
African Americans Highschool
In Little Rock Arkansas, decided to intergrate highschools. Little rock 9 is a group of 9 African Americans to attend central Highschool in 1957 -
Rosa Parks
African American refused to give up her seat to a white passenger -
Montgomery Bus
E.D. Nickson tried to challenge the bus segregation laws. This effort became known as the montgomery bus boycott. -
Earnest Green
Earnest Green became the first African American to graduate from Central Highschool. -
Little Rock Public Schools
Little Rock Public Schools were closed during the 1958 school year and reopend in 1959 and began a process of slow intergration.
