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Plessly vs. Ferguson
State of louisiana enacted a law that required seperate railway cars for blacks and whites. Homer adolph plessly took a seat in a whites only car of a lousin=ana train he refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested -
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Civil Rights Movement: 1950-1970
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Linda Brown and School board 1951 & 1954
Linda Brown 8 year old girl lives within walking distance of a whie only elementary school because of segregation she has to travel by bus to a more distant school for colored people. Supreme Court decides that legal school segregation is unconstitutional -
University of Mississipi
Supreme court rules that the university of Mississipi must admit African American Student & veteran James Meredith -
Civil rights act of 1964
Congress passes the civil rights act of 1964 banning discrimination in employment and in public places -
Loving Vs. Virginia
Supreme court hands down a decision in loving vs. virgina striking down laws against interracial marriage as unconstitutional -
First African American in Supreme court
Thurgood Marshall becomes first African American appointed to the Supreme Court -
Assasination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Marthin Luther King Jr. is assasinated as he stands on the balcont outside his mothel room the Lorreme Motel in Memphis, Tennesse -
Black Panther Chairman Assasinated
Fred Hampton Chairman of illionois black panther party is shoy snf killed by police during a raid