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where public graduate and professional schools existed for white students but not for black students, black students must be admitted to the all-white institutions, and that the equal protection clause
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To desegregate public schools across the united states
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Emmett Till was murdered at 14 years old because he was flirting with four woman
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When nine African americans wanted to go to school the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas.
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Young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service.
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To challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals
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To protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislations that was pending in congress
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Wanted to march to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote, even in the face of a segregationist system that wanted to make it impossible.
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intending to walk from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi to call attention to racism and continued voter discrimination in the South.
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the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States.
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announced her presidential bid
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Atlanta Braves star Hank Aaron hit his 715th career run off. the LA Dodgers pitcher Al Downing to break the revered record held by Babe Ruth
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Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
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That a university’s admission criteria which used race as a definte and exclussive basis for admission decision violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment