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The Supreme Court ruled that every state had to offer equal educational opportunities.
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Heman applied to the law school at the university on Texas which did not accept black students.
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Truman created the comitee on Civil Rights.
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Truman ended segragation in the military.
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Supreme Court ruled in sweatt v. Painters that the new school did not provide African Americans with access ro equal academic prestige, facilities, or instructors.
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Supreme Court ruled Brown case that segragation was illegal in school.
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Only 3 schools in the enitre south began to desegragate
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up seat.
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Supreme Court ruled that Montgomerys segragated bus system was illegal.
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School board selected 9 african american students known as the Little rock 9 to attend central highschool.
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Ernest green became the first african amercian to graduate from central highschool.
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Little rock public schools are closed.
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The Supreme Court ordered thge university of Mississippi to accept James Meredith