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In the 1950s, African Americans faced segregation, discrimination, and prejudice everday. Segregation separated Africans Americans from whites; banning people of different races from being together; segregated schools, water fountains, buildings, restaurants, etc.
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Five cases related to the segregation of African Americans combined to form a larger case called Brown vs. Board of Education. The NAACP fought in the case to win equality. The decisions brought an end to legal segregation in schools
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white man on the bus. She was arrested for her actions, but was bailed out. This started a boycott of the buses. They fought for equality on buses which led to the Civil Rights movement.
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The State began desegregation in schools and allowed
9 students to enter an all-white high school.The students were escorted by troops and were faced by discrimination in large angry mobs. The treats and discrimmination made it hard for the black students. -
Was the Nation of Islam's most effective leader and powerful speaker. Urged African Americans to be proud of who they are.
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The sit-ins protested discrimination in shops when blacks sat down in an all-white restaurant until it closed to protest. The sit-ins were nonviolent. Businesspersons were forced to choose to close shop or accept the blacks .
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Because so many adults were afraid of getting arrested, children began to protest by marching. Connor sent almost a thousand children to jail. There was chaos in the streets; fire hoses, police dogs, etc.
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The city defied new desegregation laws; "Whites only" signs remained, segregated drinking foutains, schools, buildings,ect. remained as well. The city was "probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States" Connor, a bigoted bully cheif of police, arrested many African Americans and was responsible for much of the violence held in the city
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A quarter of a million people marched in Washington and heard Martin Luther King JR give his "I Have A Dream" speech. The marchers demanded passage of the civil rights bill, integration of schools, an end to job discrimination and a program of job training.
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Hatred towards African Americans caused someone to place a bomb in the church which killed four black girls. This caused African Americans feel that they were not safe even in church.
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President Kennedy was murdered and President Johnson became President and passed the strongest civil right's law that outlawed segregation.
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Allowed blacks to vote, banned the "literacy tests", and sent examiners to seven of the southern states to register black voters.
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King was shot to death by James Earl. His accomplishments were enormous and he would be remembered forever by all that he had done in the Civil Rights Movement.
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