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Brown vs. Board of Education
The Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States, overruling the "separate but equal" principle set forth in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case. -
Emmett Till Murder
Two men kidnapped Emmett Till from Moses Wright's home. They will later admit to brutally beating him, taking him to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, shooting him in the head, fastening a large metal fan used for ginning cotton to his neck with barbed wire, and pushing the body into the river. All for talking "fresh" to a white women -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955 refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.