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Plessy vs. Ferguson
Landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, it upheld the racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in equality. "Separate but equal" -
Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was a decades long struggle with the goal of enforcing constitutional and legal rights for African-Americans that whites already enjoyed. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the court ruled that American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
Brown vs. Board of Education ll
In Brown ll the the Supreme Court ordered them to integrate their schools "with all deliberate speed" -
Little Rock Nine
A group of nine African-American students who enrolled in Little Rock Central High School, shortly after the students were prevented form entering the school due to the Governor of Arkansas ordering the National Guard to prevent them from entering.
