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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a consolation of five cases in which it was stated that the racial segregation that happened in public schools was unconstitutional, putting an end to it. However, schools still continued to segregate kids based off race, it took some time for racial segregation to fully go away in public schools. -
Rosa Parks
On December 12th, 1955, Rosa Parks had gotten on a bus, during this time Blacks and Whites had to sit in different sections of the bus. Blacks in the back, Whites in the front. However that day, Rosa Parks sat in the front and refused to give her seat up to a white man. She was arrested and sent to jail for a brief time. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine black students challenged the racial segregation in Little Rock Central High School. They were being harassed from the white students, that President Dwight Eisenhower had to send in federal troops to be with them, however it didn't stop the harassment, unfortunately.