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Plessy v. Ferguson
On June 7, 1892, Plessy bought a first-class ticket at the Press Street Depot and boarded a "whites only" car of the East Louisiana Railroad in New Orleans, Louisiana, bound for Covington, Louisiana.[5] The railroad company, which had opposed the law on the grounds that it would require the purchase of more railcars, had been previously informed of Plessy's racial lineage, and the intent to challenge the law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson -
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Thurgood Marshall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education -
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Little Rock School Intergration
By 1957, the NAACP had registered nine black students to attend the previously all-white Little Rock Central High, selected on the criteria of excellent grades and attendance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine -
De jure vs. De Facto segregation
The use of the legal system to create a permanent level of inequality occurred across the South. http://study.com/academy/lesson/de-facto-segregation-definition-examples.html -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
he Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S. On December 1, 1955, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. Rosa Parks
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The Sit-Ins
when four black students from North Carolina A&T College sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina., Emmett Till https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=the%20sit-ins -
Freedom Rides
were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Riders -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
violent retribution when they attempted to draw attention to their problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_campaign -
March on Washington
Thousands of Americans headed to Washington, Dr. Martin Luther Kings Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 -
Race Riots
There were many riots, Black Panther party, Malcolm X -
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=voting%20rights%20act%20of%201965 -
24th Amenedment
prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=24th+Amen
