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Brown vs. board of education
Anonymously it was said that it was not constitutional to have blacks and whites in school together. The decision over turns the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that sanctioned “separate but equal” for more information -
Remember Rosa parks
A woman named Rosa Parks wouldn’t give up her seat at the front of the colored people’s section for a white man who wanted it Rosa parks was arrested and it started a bus boycott which lasted until Dec 21st 1956 -
Little rock ark
A formally white school gets nine black students that no one wanted there. The governor even had the students blocked from the school. Learn more -
James Meredith
James Meredith was the 1st black student to enroll in the University of Mississippi. Riots and violence caused Kennedy to send 5000 federal troops.
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March on Washington
Around 200,000 people joined Martian Luther King at the Lincoln Memorial to hear the “I have a dream”. speech
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3 dead boys
Two white boys and a black boy were found dead I an earthen dam Six weeks in a federal investigation. It was later said to be the Ku Klux Klan.
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Black panthers
In Oakland California The militant Black Panthers are founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
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Civil rights act of 1968
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. more here
