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Brown v. Board of Education
A Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Rosa
Rosa Parks refused to move from her seat to allow a white passenger to sit. She was later arrested for her actions. -
Integration of Mississippi universities
A fight to allow blacks to attend the same universities that whites could. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
In response to Rosa Park's arrest blacks boycotted the bus system. They opted to car pool and find other means of transportation in order to deprive the public transit system of profits. -
Desegregating Little Rock Central High School
Nine black students attended a previously all white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. -
Sit-ins
Sit-ins where a form of protest in which African-Americans would take up seats at lunch counters and restaurants in order to protest not being served. -
I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King delivered his famous anti-segrigation speech in Washington D.C.
